Freedom Road

• New treatment plant ends Shoal Lake 40 First Nation’s 24-year boil water advisory

  A decades-long battle to supply the First Nation with clean drinking water — even as Winnipeg takes 100 million gallons per day from their lake — will soon be over.

  Health

  Sep 10, 2021
  
• Shoal Lake First Nation’s Freedom Road officially opens

  Shoal Lake First Nation's 'Freedom Road' has officially opened. The community, whose lake provides fresh water to the City of Winnipeg, was cut off from the mainland more than a century ago and had to rely on a rusted ferry.

  Canada

  Jun 3, 2019
  
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• ‘This is a new beginning’: Shoal Lake 40 First Nation gets funds for Freedom Road

  The final hurdle appears to have been cleared for construction of an all-weather road for Shoal Lake 40 First Nation.

  Dec 12, 2016
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• The Hill: The story behind one of BC’s most treacherous roads and the locals who built it

  When the B.C. government decided not to build a road between Anahim Lake and Bella Coola, a group of locals did it themselves.

  May 12, 2016
• Isolated reserve needs more cash for road

  Shoal Lake 40 First Nation has been under a boil water advisory for the last 18 years. An all weather road to the isolated location is now expected to cost more than original estimates.

  Health

  Mar 22, 2016
• Officials announce Shoal Lake 40 First Nation to get its ‘Freedom Road’

  Three levels of government are to officially announce today their commitment to build an all-weather road to connect the Shoal Lake 40 First Nation to the mainland.

  Canada

  Dec 17, 2015
• Liberal government committed to Shoal Lake 40 First Nation’s ‘Freedom Road’

  Canada's new indigenous affairs minister says an isolated reserve under one of the country's longest boil-water advisories will get a much-needed lifeline to the rest of the country.

  Politics

  Dec 16, 2015
• Winnipeg City Council approved $1 million for Shoal Lake 40’s ‘Freedom Road’

  Winnipeg City council approved a $1 million grant to design Freedom Road

  Dec 9, 2015
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• Winnipeggers walking to support a First Nation’s right to clean water

  WINNIPEG - Hundreds of Winnipeggers are expected to take part in a walk to help raise awareness for those living without clean drinking water on a Manitoba First Nation. It's the Winnipeg Water Walk in support of Shoal Lake 40 First Nation.

  Environment

  Sep 12, 2015
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• First Nation’s supporters sell Shoal Lake water at Winnipeg Fringe

  Activists working to pressure the federal government to help fund a road to Shoal Lake 40 First Nation will sell Winnipeg tap water for $1 a glass Friday.

  Politics

  Jul 17, 2015