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The Ipperwash Crisis was an Indigenous land dispute that occurred in Ipperwash Provincial Park, Ontario in 1995. Several members of the Stoney Point Ojibway band occupied the park in order to assert their claim to nearby land which had been expropriated from them during WW2. This led to a violent confrontation between protesters and the Ontario Provincial Police, who killed protester Dudley George. The ensuing controversy was a major event in Canadian politics, and a provincial inquiry, under former Ontario Chief Justice Sidney Linden, investigating the events was completed in the fall of 2006.
In 1936, the Province of Ontario created Ipperwash Provincial Park. In 1942, during World War II, the Government of Canada wanted reserve land from the Stoney Point Band for military training and offered to buy it for $15 per acre, and a promise to return the land after the war ended.
