Final phase of all-weather road for isolated First Nation about to begin
WINNIPEG — The final phase of construction is about to begin on an all-weather road for an isolated Indigenous community separated from the outside world more than a century ago.
Freedom Road will provide a year-round landlink between the Shoal Lake 40 First Nation in northwestern Ontario and the Trans-Canada Highway in Manitoba.
The First Nation was cut off from the mainland in 1915 during construction of an aqueduct that supplies Winnipeg with drinking water.
Shoal Lake residents, however, have been under a boil-water advisory for two decades.