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Shoal Lake No. 40
First Nation
Kejick Post Office
SHOAL LAKE, ON
POX 1EO		 Chief Kelvin Redsky
Ph: (807) 733-2315
Fax: (807) 733-3115
shoallake@shoallake40.ca
On-Reserve Population:  146 (INAC, 1991)
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Land Base: 2 579ha
Languages
Linguistic Affiliation: Algonkian (Ojibway)
Mother Tongue:

  • English 33%
  • Aboriginal 24%
  • English & Aboriginal 43%
  • French & Other 0%

    Affiliations
    TC: None
    PTO: Grand Council Treaty #3
    Electoral Ridings
    (F) Kenora - Rainy River
    (P)Kenora
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    Historical Notes

    The Salteaux Ojibway people (ancestors of Shoal Lake No. 40 First Nation people) inhabited the Ontario portion of the area subsequently covered by the Northwest Angle Treaty of 1873 -- Treaty No. 3. Their economy was based on fishing, hunting, gathering, trapping, the harvesting of wild rice and some horticulture, until the late 18th century when they became involved in the fur trade with the Hudson's Bay Company.

    Shoal lake I.R. No. 40 was confirmed by the Ontario government in 1915.
     
     

    Industries

    Major industries include trapping, fishing, water pumping station. Small industry includes a tourist camp, general store and commercial fishing. Shoal Lake is the sole owner of a mini-mall business operation located along Hwy. 17 near Clearwater Bay, Ontario.

     
     

    Educational Facilities

    Elementary

    • Ojibway Heritage School, K-8 (First Nation Operated)

    Secondary

    • students board in Kenora
     
     

    Community Services and Facilities

    • pool hall, community centre, administration building
    • health clinic with a Community Health Representative
    • day care centre (First Nation Operation)
    • Child and Family Services worker provided through Ojibway Tribal Family Services in Kenora
    • affiliated with and obtains services from Migisi Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centre
    • Ontario First Nations Policing Arrangements -- one constable
    • O.P.P. in Shoal Lake (sub-detachment of Kenora Detachment)
     
     

    Communications

    • telephone - Bell Canada
    • radio - CJRL-AM, CBC-AM
    • newspapers - Treaty 3 newspaper, dailies from Kenora and Winnipeg, one monthly from Sioux Lookout
    • television - CBC (English and French), TVOntario
     
     

    Utilities

    • water - public buildings on pressure system
    • sewage - community septic and holding tanks; also some private septic systems
    • other waste - garbage truck hauls solid waste to refuse site on reserve
    • energy/electricity - Ontario Hydro
     
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