2010: Canadian patriot, Tony Trigiani, creates the NFNM to honour our Fallen veterans.
2011: Canadian Government responds positively to the NFNM instructing Parks Canada to facilitate the proposal with due diligence.
2012: Parks Canada CEO-Allan Latourelle, Field Superintendent-Helen Robichaud, and Cape Breton Highlands Park Superintendent-Chip Bird, enthusiastically support the project appointing Ed Kennedy to oversee and help the NFNM.
A local group, People North of Smokey Who Agree to Having Our Monument at Green Cove, united local communities in our passionate support for this NFNM.
2013: Stantec supplies a Detailed Impact Analysis (DIA) of the project. Public meetings in the local area, result in some modest changes.
2014: The Indigenous Mi’Kmaq create their Mi’Kmaq Ecological Knowledge Study (MEKS)
Fall, 2014: Preparatory drilling takes place at Green Cove in the Cape Breton Highlands National Park.
The Stantec report and the MEKS report are presented to Parks Canada; some changes are suggested.
Feb 4, 2016: The NFNM present their revised report to Parks Canada.
Feb 5, 2016: Environment Minister, McKenna, cancels the lease for the Green Cove site reneging on the opportunity to honour our veterans in a National Park.
The Green Cove site comprises 1 hectare of the 949, 000 hectare CB Highlands in an area which already has a trail, boardwalk and a paved parking lot in an area of the Park designated since its inception (1936) for recreation and education.