Ottawa has hired a Membertou company to look into the history of five parcels of land it owns in the area which used to belong to the Dominion Coal Company.
The Local Xpress reports the federal government is looking to dispose of the properties and wants an ecological and knowledge study done on them first to determine whether they were used or occupied by the Mi’kmaq in the past. Membertou Geomatics Solutions will be looking at parts of Mira Bay, Lingan Bay, Morrison Road, Ben Eoin and Orangedale.