Off Topic Walpole Island

SOUTHWIND

SOUTHWIND

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How's this work for people wanting to transit from the St. Clair to Wallaceburg?

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Walpole implements pleasure craft licences for non-members

Boaters who aren’t members of the Walpole Island First Nation will have to start paying to access the island Indigenous community’s bays and channels with a…
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I tried to compare the WIFN map to Navionics and it looks like half the channel up to Wallaceburg is not part of their territory covered by the license (but I'm not 100% sure). It looks like their territory goes to the middle of those channels. With the U.S. border closed I don't think you can get up the St Clair at all without going through the territory though which is another big problem for pleasure boats. Once the borders re-open it looks like you can just run up the US side.

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This is a joke no one should pay them fudge all and boat a navigable water way they don’t have any jurisdiction our government needs to stop this
 
Or just drive or hike a Provincial Park, or own a firearm (PAL), or travel the 407.
Any others?
 
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