The price of Winnipeg’s water: one reserve’s man-made misery and isolation – Times Colonist
March 12, 2015
SHOAL LAKE, Ont. – More than 30 years have passed, but Janis Redsky can still see the flashing lights of the ambulance she desperately needed.
She was pregnant and crippled by searing abdominal pains, stranded on her reserve Shoal Lake 40 — an island carved off a century ago for construction of an aqueduct to provide water to the city of Winnipeg.
The ambulance sat on the opposite shore, less than a kilometre away, as Redsky and her husband tried to find a way across.
“All we could do was look at the ambulance — a physical view of help waiting across the water,” recalls her husband, Stewart, breaking down into tears.
