Royal Roads site likely to be returned to Indigenous people
The federal government is expected to announce in the next few weeks that it intends to return the land where Royal Roads University stands to Indigenous peoples
The federal government is expected to announce in the next few weeks that it intends to return the land where Royal Roads University stands to Indigenous peoples, says a university official.
Philip Twyford, Royal Roads’ vice-president of finance and operations, said the university is expecting the declaration this month or next month, although the details have not been worked out.
The university currently leases 60 hectares from the Department of National Defence for $1 a year, and in exchange maintains the entire 230-hectare Hatley Park property on which it sits. After DND declared the land surplus to its needs in 2016, the federal and provincial governments, Songhees and Esquimalt Nations, and other Indigenous groups began negotiations on the future of the land.
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