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The public has until 2031 to document all existing rights of way through the countryside.
The trespassers take a break on Kinder Scout, April 24 1932.
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The recent efforts of countryside access campaigners evoke the Kinder mass trespass of 90 years earlier.
Four hikers walk west, from the village of Val Marie in southern Saskatchewan, along a historical trail once used by Indigenous tribes and settlers. Giving Canadians the ‘right to roam’ might be a small step toward answering the calls of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
James R. Page
A right-to-roam movement has never developed in Canada the way it has in the U.K. Here’s how it could benefit Canadian society as a whole, including reconciliation efforts with the Indigenous.