City committee OK’s $1M funding for Shoal Lake road design – CBC
All-weather road expected to cost $30 million, shared by 3 levels of government
Dec 09, 2015
The drive to build a permanent road for Shoal Lake 40 First Nation received a $1 million boost on Wednesday.
The City of Winnipeg’s executive policy committee approved the funding for design costs of what’s been called Freedom Road. City council must still vote on the plan.
The reserve on the Ontario-Manitoba boundary was cut off from the mainland a century ago during construction of an aqueduct that sends fresh water to Winnipeg.
In summer, residents depend on an aging ferry to get to the mainland, but the vessel isn’t always reliable. In winter, they cross on the ice, but people have fallen through and died.
