An Alberta company that had mineral claims on land near the camp has been fighting for years to gain vehicle access, says the YMCA-YWCA head
The YMCA-YWCA of Vancouver Island is preparing for another legal battle to block road construction through wilderness near its Camp Thunderbird site at Glinz Lake in the Sooke Hills.“The main thing from our perspective is we’ll do everything we can to prevent a highway from going through the middle of Camp Thunderbird,” said Derek Gent, chief executive of the Island organization.
Gent said the company is a group of real estate developers. “We believe the primary intent is to try to build a subdivision out there,” he said, noting the YMCA-YWCA joined a complaint filed by the deputy chief gold commissioner in late 2021. “We firmly believe that there shouldn’t be a highway running through the middle of our camp. We have 3,000-4,000 kids a year going up there where we’ve been delivering programs since the ‘30s.”
That civil matter, brought by some of the shareholders of Victoria Teleport but not the company itself, seeks to have a roadway leading to one of the mineral claims declared a public roadway.
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