{"id":6,"date":"2013-12-09T01:55:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T01:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2025-04-01T05:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T09:52:12","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?page_id=6","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/DSC09864.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-115\" src=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/DSC09864sm.jpg\" alt=\"DSC09864sm\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are a coalition of non-governmental groups. Our mission is to ensure no loss of wildlife habitat in the Backlands and to preserve them for natural, historical, cultural, conservation, educational, recreational and common use.<\/p>\n<p>We are also on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Purcells-Cove-Backlands\/353000661433195\"><strong>Facebook<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/@HfxBacklands\"><strong>Twitter<\/strong><\/a> (@HfxBacklands) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/backlandscoalition\/\"><strong>Instagram <\/strong><\/a>and<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/backlandscoalition.bsky.social\"> Bluesky<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n(@backlandscoalition.bsky.social)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>We acknowledge that the Backlands are in Mi&#8217;kma&#8217;ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi\u2019kmaq People.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This website, set up in 2013, is administered by David Patriquin. It is hosted on funio.com in Montreal. It is archived on the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160615000000*\/backlandscoalition.ca\">Internet Archive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unless otherwise stated, photos on this website were taken by David Patriquin and may be used under the conditions of a <a href=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/CreativeCommonsdavidgpatriquin2023.html\">Creative Commons License<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are a coalition of non-governmental groups. Our mission is to ensure no loss of wildlife habitat in the Backlands and to preserve them for natural, historical, cultural, conservation, educational, recreational and common use. We are also on Facebook and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?page_id=6\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":20,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7574,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/7574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}