Welcome to Caledonia

The sleepy rural community of Caledonia ignited into a flashpoint for First Nations' anger and racial tension when police tried to remove a group of Mohawk protestors occupying a tract of land slated for development in April of 2006. The charged and often violent events that followed over the next year have escalated rather than cooled relations between native and local white residents. Caledonia has brought front and centre issues of treaty rights, racism, and the dissolusionment of Canada's large and integral First Nations' population.