Kristen Villebrun and Wendy Bush hoped they wouldn't have to pray for Chedoke Creek, but four years after they first raised alarm about the water's condition, they were part of an Indigenous full moon ceremony to do just that. About 50 people showed up near Princess Point on the dark and frigid Monday evening for the monthly ceremony, which was particularly special as it focused on Chedoke Creek. The body of water that runs into Cootes Paradise had about 24 billion litres of sewage and storm water runoff leak into it due to a gate being left open.
A local group has launched an ambitious plan to create Canada’s first museum of water. Spearheaded by local historian Dan Travers and former SS Keewatin curator Fred Addis, the group was formed late last year in an effort to establish the Canadian Museum of Water/Musee canadien de l'eau (CMW-MCE) that would tell the story of water from the earliest First Nations through the Industrial Age to modern times.
