WINNIPEG – A crowdfunding campaign to pay Ottawa’s portion of an all-weather road for a reserve under one of the longest boil-water advisories in Canada has ended.
The fundraising campaign fell short of its $10-million goal — it garnered $101,000 from just over 1,000 donors.
The campaign intended to raise enough money to pay the federal government’s share of a permanent road for the Shoal Lake 40 First Nation on the Manitoba-Ontario boundary.
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The reserve was cut off from the mainland a century ago during construction of an aqueduct to send clean water to Winnipeg.
The community has been under a boil-water advisory for 17 years.
Rick Harp, who organized the headline-grabbing fundraiser, said the fight for Shoal Lake 40 will continue until the reserve gets justice.
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