zhaawindaan-zaaga'igan | Shoal Lake No.40 First Nation
Community Profile
- Shoal Lake No.40 First Nation is situated on the Ontario-Manitoba border, historically impacted by water diversion projects that significantly disrupted their community's access to clean water and traditional lands.
- Last Updated 2025-04-20 09:45:20 UTC
- Name: Shoal Lake No.40 (ISC Code: 155)
- Former Names: Shoal Lake Band, Shoal Lake Indian Reserve No.40
- Band Style: Ojibway (Anishinaabe)
- Cultural Area: Boreal Forest, Lake of the Woods Region
- Indigenous Language: Ojibwe (Anishinaabemowin)
- Number of Registered Members: 711
Governance
Band Council
- GOVERNANCE TYPE: Not Applicable
- TERM EXPIRES: 03/15/2026
- CHIEF: ANTHONY "KEVIN" REDSKY
- NUMBER OF COUNCIL MEMBERS:5
- ANTHONY "KEVIN" REDSKY
- KARA DALE REDSKY
- BRENDA DALE FREEL
- BILLY JOE WAHPAY
- CONNIE-RAE WHITE
Contact Information
- BAND WEBSITE: http://firstnation.ca/shoal-lake-no-40
- PHONE NUMBER: (807) 733-2315
- FAX NUMBER: (807) 733-3115
- ADDRESS: GENERAL DELIVERY, KEJICK, ON
- EMAILS:
- Chief ANTHONY "KEVIN" REDSKY:
- Councillor KARA DALE REDSKY:
- Councillor BRENDA DALE FREEL:
- Councillor BILLY JOE WAHPAY:
- Councillor CONNIE-RAE WHITE:
- General Band Office:
- Media Contact:
- Referrals Contact:
- Websites
Band Financial Statements
- 2023 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2022 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2021 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2020 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2019 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2018 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2017 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2016 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2015 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2014 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2013 - Audited consolidated financial statements
- 2011 - Shoal Lake No.4020112012.pdf
- 2010 - Shoal Lake No.4020102011.pdf
- 2009 - Shoal Lake No.4020092010.pdf
- 2008 - Shoal Lake No.4020082009.pdf
- 2007 - Shoal Lake No.4020072008.pdf
- 2006 - Shoal Lake No.4020062007.pdf
- 2005 - Shoal Lake No.4020052006.pdf
- 2004 - Shoal Lake No.4020042005.pdf
- 2003 - Shoal Lake No.4020032004.pdf
- 2002 - Shoal Lake No.4020022003.pdf
- 2001 - Shoal Lake No.4020012002.pdf
Band Council Remuneration
- 2023 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2022 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2021 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2020 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2019 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2018 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2017 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2016 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2015 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2014 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
- 2013 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
Laws, Bylaws, and Codes
Intergovernmental Agreements
Lands and Traditional Territory
Reserves
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ISC Code: 6288
SHOAL LAKE 40
2579.0 Hectares
NW/NO OF LAKE OF THE WOODS
[49.5847858, -95.1420191] -
ISC Code: 6240
AGENCY 30
379.0 Hectares
AULNEAU PENINSULA IN LAKE OF THE WOODS 28 MI SOUTHERLY FROM KENORA KENORA DISTRICT
[49.7670416, -94.4893924] -
ISC Code: 6285
SHOAL LAKE 34B2
172.4 Hectares
NW/NO END/L'EXTREMITE OF/DE SHOAL LAKE
[49.6061343, -95.12152060000001]
- Located in the Lake of the Woods watershed region
- Traditional lands span Ontario-Manitoba border
- Historically used territories for fishing, hunting, and gathering
- Key ecological zones include boreal forest and lake systems
- Significant cultural sites near Shoal Lake and surrounding waterways
Consultations and Referrals
Band Submissions
Consultation Reports
Band Business Interests
Band Owned Corporations
Court Records
Media Reports
Media Reports
- First Nations to get $15M from Housing Accelerator Fund
- Make it Safe: Canada’s Obligation to End the First Nations Water Crisis
- Opinion: Shoal Lake 39 is a classic David and Goliath story. It shouldn’t have to be
- ‘About damn time’: First Nation gets clean water after 24-year wait
- Shoal Lake and Winnipeg's Drinking Water
- ’We’ve been stranded on this man-made island for the past 100 years’
- After 24 years of water advisories, Shoal Lake 40 First Nation can drink from the tap
- After 24 years of water advisories, Shoal Lake 40 First Nation can drink from the tap
- First Nations launch human rights violations museum on CMHR grounds
- ‘Spirits of our ancestor’: Shoal Lake 40 is rectifying a century of hardships
- Shoal Lake 40 First Nation sues Winnipeg, feds over impacts of diverted drinking water
- Shoal Lake 40 to make clean water case before United Nations
- This First Nation has a new highway and a water-treatment plant that's 'like our Stanley Cup'
- This First Nation was on water advisories for 24 years. Now, its treatment plant has won an award
- A century of water: As Winnipeg aqueduct turns 100, Shoal Lake finds freedom
- Campaign to help Shoal Lake 40 First Nation intensifies
- The Conversation: First Nations see little progress on clean water
- Inside Justin Trudeau’s historic visit to an isolated Indigenous reserve in Canada
- Shoal Lake First Nation gets clean water after 24-year wait
- Panel Discussion: Got Water? Thank Shoal Lake No. 40
- Shoal Lake First Nation lifts 24-year boil water advisory, but there’s more to do: experts
- What Freedom Road can teach Ontario about partnering with Indigenous communities
- Shoal Lake 40 Launches The Museum Of Canadian Human Rights Violations
- ‘We are not trash’
- New road links isolated First Nation to mainland for 1st time in 100 years
- The price of Winnipeg’s water: Man-made misery for a native community
- 30 left homeless after apartment complex fire in Shoal Lake No. 40
- Shoal Lake First Nation sues for long-promised compensation
- Shoal Lake 40 First Nation celebrates the official opening of Freedom Road
- Can we end water insecurity for Canada’s Indigenous communities?
- Road to isolated Shoal Lake First Nation a long-awaited step in tangled history
- Shoal Lake 40 shares optimistic vision of future during annual treaty day celebrations
- Waiting for a century: Shoal Lake 40 celebrates Freedom Road
- Woman from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation speaks to UN about human rights
- Shoal Lake 40 and Winnipeg's drinking water: What's at stake?
- Government officials knew $30M Shoal Lake road project could cost $52M when they announced it, documents show
- ‘An ongoing symbol of colonization’: How bad water affects First Nations’ health
- Shoal Lake 40 First Nation's Freedom Road a path to reconciliation: Chief
- Op-ed: The strike, Shoal Lake and Indigenous dispossession
- After nearly 25 years, water advisory in Shoal Lake 40 has been lifted
- Shoal Lake to Winnipeg: Practicing Land-Based Reconciliation
- Winnipeg's drinking water source of frustration for northern Ontario Indigenous community
- World Water Day: Indigenous drinking water status
- Ottawa pressed to make good on promise to end all long-term drinking-water advisories for First Nations
- Winnipeg rallies mark solidarity for Indigenous Canadians on Canada 150
- Tip of the iceberg: The true state of drinking water advisories in First Nations
- Pressure mounts to build road for Shoal Lake 40 First Nation
- Clean drinking water should be a human right in Canada
- Shoal Lake 40 First Nation launching lawsuit against Winnipeg, federal government for harms caused by aqueduct
- Timeline: Shoal Lake's long road to freedom
- Sacred fire planned at human rights museum to highlight First Nations water issues
- Human rights museum needs to act on First Nations right to water
- Chief says it was a 'truly amazing day' as Shoal Lake 40 First Nation welcomed sitting Prime Minister for the first time
- First Nation urges human rights museum to acknowledge 'hypocrisy'
- Despite pledge to end drinking water advisories, these 2 Manitoba First Nations still live under them
- First Nations Reserve one step closer to ‘Freedom Road’
- Campaign to help isolated Shoal Lake 40 First Nation intensifies
- Troubled waters: Disputes over lakes, waterfronts have roared between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians
- Northern Manitoba First Nations, leaders raise alarm about lack of fire safety after apartment building burns
- First Nation offended by Canadian Museum for Human Rights
- Anishinaabe police officer walking across Canada for Indigenous youth mental health
- Ben Carr makes it official, declares run for Liberal nomination in late father's federal riding
- First Nation community 2 hours from Toronto still doesn’t have clean, running water
- Justin Trudeau promises road for Shoal Lake 40 First Nation
- City of Winnipeg to begin bridge construction at Shoal Lake 40 First Nation
- Justin Trudeau visiting Shoal Lake 40 for documentary filming
- Weekend fires in 2 First Nations leave people homeless
- Colonization is far from over
- Shoal Lake No. 40 gets backing from IJC
- Next phase of Shoal Lake 40's 'Freedom Road' construction set to begin
- Road to isolated Shoal Lake First Nation a long-awaited step in tangled history
- Lack of clean drinking water in our own province is an issue Winnipeggers can't ignore
- Tip of the iceberg: The true state of drinking water advisories in First Nations
- Life In Canada Without Clean Water
- After Trudeau visit, Shoal Lake First Nation hopes 100-year wait for ‘Freedom Road’ near end
- 'It's everything for us': Shoal Lake 40 celebrates start of Freedom Road construction
- Shoal Lake 40 First Nation launching lawsuit against Winnipeg, federal government for harms caused by aqueduct
- Sep 2021: Shoal Lake 40 toasts clean water
- In the Neskantaga First Nation, undrinkable water is a crisis of health and faith
- Access to clean drinking water remains an issue in First Nations communities
- Canada’s indigenous thirsty for water rights
- Pipe Dreams: Energy East proved just how difficult Indigenous consultations can be
- Figure 2. Tania Willard, 'Crazymaking,' woodcut, 16″ × 20″ January,...
- Many First Nations communities without access to clean drinking water
- Trudeau won’t be able to keep his promise on clean water for First Nations, human rights groups warn
- Dozens of Canada’s First Nations lack drinking water: ‘Unacceptable in a country so rich’
- 'Why has it taken 134 years?': First Nations in Manitoba, Ontario move closer to flood compensation
- Shoal Lake 40 First Nation’s transformational fight for clean water
- 'This road is just the beginning:' Isolated First Nation celebrates Freedom Road
- Clean Drinking Water Should Be a Human Right
- A century of water: As Winnipeg aqueduct turns 100, Shoal Lake finds freedom
- ‘This is a new beginning’: Shoal Lake 40 First Nation gets funds for Freedom Road
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits Shoal Lake 40 reserve, hauls water
- Dec 2016: Opinion: Shoal Lake 40 paying for our water for a century
- Justin Trudeau visits Shoal Lake 40 First Nation
- Jun 2019: The road to everywhere: Optimism travels on Shoal Lake 40's Freedom Road
- Shoal Lake 40 First Nation under boil water advisory for 17 years - Winnipeg
- The price of Winnipeg's water: one reserve's man-made misery
- David Suzuki: Clean drinking water should be a human right in Canada
- A First Nations man died day after leaving Ontario hospital with headache pills. Now his family wants answers
- Ottawa committed to building road to Shoal Lake 40 First Nation: MP
- Sep 2019: Shoal Lake 40 finally getting drinkable water
- Winnipeg’s municipal workers support Shoal Lake #40
- Council of Canadians call on federal party leaders to 'end First Nations water crisis'
- Dec 2012: Legal fight to erupt over Winnipeg water
- Shoal Lake #40 will block Winnipeg’s attempt to sell water
- May 2016: Indigenous art in spotlight downtown
- Canada’s Waterless Communities: Shoal Lake 40
- Shoal Lake 40 nears completion of Freedom Road
- Canada’s Waterless Communities: Shoal Lake 40
- Cleaning up water in First Nations communities: Advice to Prime Minister-designate Justin Trudeau
- Winnipeg’s drinking water a source of frustration for Indigenous community
- Chief Erwin Redsky Speech to Prime Minister Trudeau
- Updated: Will Canada Unblock this People’s ‘Road to Freedom’?
- Cleaning up water in First Nations communities: Advice to Prime Minister-designate Justin Trudeau
- Winnipeg’s drinking water a source of frustration for Indigenous community
- Updated: Will Canada Unblock this People’s ‘Road to Freedom’?
- Shoal Lake 40 First Nation launching lawsuit against Winnipeg, federal government for harms caused by aqueduct
- Controlled chaos of Trudeau's Shoal Lake 40 trip had messaging blitz akin to Harper's PMO: documents
- 100 years of forced isolation ‘devastating’ says former chief
- RRC Polytech’s Mobile Training Lab helping to build skillsets, structures and relationships in Shoal Lake 40 First Nation
- Opinion – Shoal Lake #40: The Water Bill is Long Overdue
- Indigenous corporation plans Kenora apartment project
- Winnipeg gathers to “unsettle” and acknowledge 150 years of Indigenous resilience, determination, and courage
- Lifeline Lost, Shoal Lake 40 First Nation remains under state of emergency.
- Shoal Lake 40 First Nation sues Winnipeg, feds over impacts of diverted drinking water
- Shoal Lake 40 to finally get long-awaited Freedom Road
- May 2019: Opinion: Racism intertwined with 1919 strike
Academic Research
Academic Research
- Pressure to Act: The Shoal Lake Aqueduct and the Greater Winnipeg Water District.
- Developing a domestic water supply for Winnipeg from Shoal lake and lake of the woods: The greater Winnipeg water district aqueduct, 1905–1919
- Assessing alternative land and natural resources management regimes at Shoal Lake First Nation No. 40
- 'O Canada'or 'Freedom Road'?: Shoal Lake 40's Mirror on Global Northern Disability Studies and Public Pedagogies by Leslie G. Roman and Sam Eldridge. In …
- CONFLICT ANALYSIS OF THE SHOAL LAKE SUBDWISION1
- Thinking through the Canadian museum for human rights
- 'O Canada'or 'Freedom Road'?: Shoal Lake 40's Mirror on Global Northern Disability Studies and Public Pedagogies
- Resource issues and multi-party decision making: a model for basin planning in Shoal Lake (Manitoba & Ontario)
- Presidential Address. Starting with Water: Canada, Colonialism, and History at 2019
- Multi-stakeholder decision making: The shoal lake watershed case
Expert Analysis