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Definitely Not the Opera

Shoal Lake 40: portrait of a resilient community

Join guest host Ismaila Alfa on a journey to Shoal Lake - and meet some of the resilient people who call the isolated community home.
Students outside the Shoal Lake 40 Ojibwe Heritage School (CBC)

Shoal Lake 40 is a beautiful place with a painful history.

A century ago, the community was forced to move from its ancestral village siteso Winnipeg could build an aqueduct. Today, the people of Shoal Lake 40 liveon a man-made island that straddles the Manitoba-Ontario border.

And they'vebeen under one of the longest boil-water advisories in Canada nearly two decades.

But there's hope. The federal government justannouncedfunding for 'Freedom Road', which will finally connectShoal Lake 40 to the outside world.

This week, joinguest host Ismaila Alfa on a journey to Shoal Lake -and meet some of the resilient people who call the isolated community home.