| Shoal Lake 40 First Nation’s Freedom Road Backgrounder (pdf) UPDATED: 12/11/16 10:14 AM |
Statement by Chief Erwin Redsky
Mr. Prime Minister, we thank you for coming to share this day with us. You have seen and heard a lot and you have been generous with your time and your availability to our people. It’s appreciated because their daily reality has been ignored for a very long time. (full statement)
NEWS
- Isolated Shoal Lake 40 First Nation to get its ‘Freedom Road’
- Road to isolated Shoal Lake First Nation a long-awaited step in tangled history
- Freedom Road Answers Shoal Lake 40 Grandmother’s Prayers
- Hundreds march in support of Shoal Lake Freedom Road
- With no clean water for 17 years, hundreds rally for federal action for Shoal Lake
- Ottawa committed to building road to Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, August 10, 2015
- Federal government commits to build Shoal Lake highway – August 10, 2015
- Ontario Aboriginal Affairs Regional Director General approves $1M contribution for detailed design of Freedom Road – May 15, 2014
- Joint Manitoba/Winnipeg request to Canada to commit to construction of Freedom Road. -April 14, 2015
- Metro News – It’s time to pay the water bill we owe Shoal Lake 40 First Nation
- Save water with simple lifestyle changes
- CBC News – Shoal Lake reserve residents weep as Ottawa balks at funding road construction
- CBC News – City of Winnipeg to begin bridge construction at Shoal Lake 40 First Nation
- Kenora Daily Miner – Shoal Lake 40 support for highway twinning hinges on Freedom Road construction guarantees
Ontario’s Minister of Transportation (image) - David Suzuki Blog- Clean drinking water should be a human right in Canada
- NNL – Clean drinking water should be a human right in Canada – David Suzuki
- Winnipeg Free Press – Museum eyes band’s complaint about water
- APTN – Shoal Lake #40 is hoping international community can help with water woes
- APTN – Part 1 Shoal Lake 40 out to make a statement with different kind of museum
- APTN – Part 2 Living in ‘Alcatraz’
ABOUT
Shoal Lake 40 First Nation is an Ojibwa or Ontario Saulteaux First Nation located in the Eastman Region of Manitoba and the Kenora District of Ontario. The total registered population in August 2011 was 568, of which the on-reserve population was 266.The first Nation is a member of the Grand Council of Treaty 3.
CHIEF AND COUNCIL
- Chief Erwin Redsky
- Councillor Herb Green
- Councillor Billy Joe Wahpay
- Councillor Vernon Redsky
- Councillor Brenda Freel
FREEDOM ROAD
Our First Nation’s Analysis and Solution to meeting the urgent need for secure, all-weather access.
27 Kilometer road from Trans Canada #1 Highway to Shoal Lake #40 First Nation Includes: Approximately 9 kilometers on Shoal Lake #40 First Nation reserve land Approximately 18 kilometers on Manitoba Provincial Crown lands Bridge across canal to island (water crossing) Bridge support across aqueduct (dry land)