Two Metro Vancouver municipalities are reassuring homeowners and businesses that they will maintain ownership over their property in the face of an Indigenous land claim.

The title claim, filed by the Kwikwetlem First Nation in 2016, includes land in Port Coquitlam and Coquitlam.

“In the context of the decision in Richmond and Cowichan, the city was receiving a large number of inquiries from people about, ‘Hey, what’s happening there and is my property impacted?'” Port Coquitlam Mayor Brad West told Global News.

The land in question covers several publicly-owned parcels in Port Coquitlam and Coquitlam, including the Riverview lands and the Colony Farm Psychiatric Hospital site.

However, unlike the Cowichan case in Richmond , Kwikwetlem’s claim only involved public land.

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