Shoal Lake news

Shoal Lake First Nation’s Freedom Road officially opens  Global NewsA First Nation left isolated more than a century ago so that water could be diverted to Winnipeg has officially opened its all-season road to the mainland. Shoal Lake Chief Erwin Redsky says the community on the Manitoba-Ontario border was an example of broken relationships with Canada but now it can demonstrate a path forward to reconciliation. Shoal Lake was cut off from the mainland more than a century ago dur

A century of water: As Winnipeg aqueduct turns 100, Shoal Lake finds freedom  CBC NewsThe taps to Winnipeg's drinking water were first turned on in April 1919, but as the city celebrated its engineering feat and raised glasses of that clear liquid, another community's fortunes suddenly turned dark. Construction of a new aqueduct plunged Shoal Lake 40 into a forced isolation that it is only now emerging from, 100 years after Winnipeg's politicians locked their sights on the water that c