GGR240H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Mantra, Winnipeg Free Press, Water District
10 Apr 2018
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It came to the attention of a larger population just a couple years ago. Many westerners moved to ontario knew extremely little of shoal lake (border of ontario and manitoba), they first heard about it a couple year sago. There is an aquaduct built from shoal lake to deliver drinking water to winnipeg. It has been going on for a century. At the source of aquaduct are 2 indigenous communities: shoal lake 40. Adele perry wrote a book named aqueduct about this: it makes vivid canada"s colonial history. It"s consumed and understood to be free and widely available to people in winnipeg. In 1915, fed gov sold parts of shoal lake to the greater winnipeg water district. The gov carves out pieces of this reserve and sells it to the water authority. Then winnipeg water district builds a canal that cuts off shoal lake 40 and turns it into an artificial island.
