History at risk in Ontario’s Halton region as heritage service shutters: historians

When the large, red-lettered sign that for decades had welcomed visitors to Sauble Beach, Ont. – a popular 11-kilometre stretch of sand on Lake Huron – was changed to read “Welcome to Saugeen Beach” earlier this summer, it was stating a legal fact. But it still rankled some locals in this small cottage community, about three hours from Toronto.After a land-claim battle that dates back to the 1990s, the local Saugeen First Nation won a victory two years ago. It convinced a judge that the area’s official map had wrongly left 2.4-kilometres of the north end of the beach out of the reserve...