One of Canada’s most famous snowplows — a centrepiece of the 19-day Tyendinaga Mohawk protest along CN railway tracks east of Belleville – was offered for sale with a $10 million price tag on the weekend before OPP raided the site early Monday, according to social media.

An online ad posted “tongue in cheek” on autoTRADER.ca offered a “used Freightliner fl80 for sale in Shannonville” but was later taken down and replaced with a notice “the vehicle you are looking for is no longer available.”

The name of the owner of the 1997 green-coloured truck with the logo “Cleansite” affixed on its doors was not made public.

The truck has been parked on the southern fringe of the CN Railway’s level crossing at Wymans Road by demonstrating Tyendinaga Mohawks in support of Wet’suwet’en peoples fighting a Coastal GasLink pipeline planned to cross the unceded territory in northern British Columbia.

The protest and the truck’s dangerously close proximity to the tracks led to a decision after Feb. 6 by CN railway owners to halt all trains for nearly three weeks on that section of railway – CN ships $250 billion a year in bulk cargo, much of it through this Toronto-Montreal corridor, one of the busiest in the country.

During a visit Thursday evening to the protest site, four Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs inked their signatures using black Sharpie markers on the blood-red coloured face of the plow blade in honour of the local Mohawks’ solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en pushback against the natural gas pipeline.

Local Mohawks also joined in and added their signatures to the plow blade as a sign of unity.

Facebook comments argued the autographs of the famous four in some minds has now made the snowplow involved in a nationwide historical moment a symbol of First Nations speaking out against what they have described as continued oppression by the Canadian government.

According to comments posted on a local realpeoplesmedia.ca Facebook page, one person remarked, “I want that truck, like having the Stanley Cup parked on my unceeded [sic] lawn.”

After police moved in and arrested Tyendinaga Mohawk demonstrators Monday morning, Tyendinaga community members oversaw the removal of Red Mohawk warrior flags and purple Wet’Suwet’en flags that were draped across the snowplow.

A Mohawk warrior flag flying high above the scene on a raised CN signal rail arm was also taken down from the scene around noon on Monday as police swept the site.

The snowplow was expected to be towed from the scene to be used as evidence by OPP for any charges to be laid against demonstrators who were reportedly taken to Lennox and Addington OPP detachment following their arrest Monday.