News From Other Islands
Kelleys Island
The Kelleys Island History Museum’s winter project is ambitious. It’s to get all the island’s old school yearbooks scanned and posted to their website. By the time you read this, they will probably be done.
Pelee Island
Government officials on Pelee Island ask to allow U.S. citizens to cross border. In February, the Township of Pelee sent a letter off to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ontario Premier Doug Ford asking the governments to allow U.S. landowners to cross the border to check on their properties. Mayor Ray Durocher says members of council and Canadian officials on the mainland have been hearing from U.S. landowners who have not been able to cross the border and visit their homes on the island and are worried about them.
Durocher says, “Forty percent of our cottages on the island are owned by U.S. citizens and it’s been over a year since they’ve been able to maintain their properties and with the high water level, it’s getting to a point where we’re just asking for consideration for landowners to be able to cross the border.”
He says U.S. landowners miss the island. “They’ve been coming to the island since the second World War so they are a part of the island,” adding, “They are not just cottagers, they actually contribute a lot to the island.”
Durocher says the island is not asking the governments to deem the landowners essential, but felt they should be allowed to cross to check on their properties.
Council agreed to send the letter after its February council meeting.
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