LeClair said there isn’t a timeline for the bypass to be open to traffic again. It remained blocked by a police presence at Greens Road in the north and Argyle Street in the south.

“I know they’re trying to expedite and get it done quickly,” LeClair said.

LeClair said he didn’t know if the protestors remained in the area.

“I haven’t been told ... we’re remaining in the area just to preserve the peace like we’ve said from the onset,” he said. “We’re going to remain in the area see how things go.”

The gates to the former Douglas Creek Estates, where the original blockade was erected on Aug. 10, were locked on Tuesday morning. There was a group of 20 people inside, with several vehicles. Two police vehicles were parked across the street from the site.

The blockade was originally put up in response to the handling of the Burtch Lands, which are located in the County of Brant.

As part of the agreement to remove a similar blockade from the Highway 6 bypass in 2006, the HCCC say they negotiated the return of the Burtch property to the hereditary Six Nations government.

Earlier this year, Six Nations Elected Band Council and the province agreed to put the 154-hectare parcel of land into a corporation “to be held in trust under the band council” and not the traditional government.

Meanwhile, Grice said that it took a monumental effort on both sides to bring the barricade down, commending those within the Six Nations community that helped to make it happen.

“I think people are happy the barricades are down; I know a lot of people recognize that a lot of effort went into it, not only from the Caledonia side but from the Six Nations side as well,” Grice said. “Without the support to get this barricade down from within Six Nations, does this happen today?

"I think it proves to prove that this is a small group and that people were trying to resolve the issue, which is internal.”

He added that prior to the blockade, the “prosperity, friendships and commerce in both communities were doing really well” and that, “I hope this doesn’t put it back.”

In an attempt to help businesses in the Caledonia community, Grice said that council has sent off a letter to the provincial government seeking compensation local businesses.

“The county has already sent off a letter to the province stating that we want reimbursement for those businesses as they prove their losses for that period of time,” Grice said. “The county is going to try and help facilitate that any way we possible can.”

–With files from Natalie Paddon