Author: mary

Houses and Lands

  Last night I stood in the basement, organizing things and deciding what to keep. I looked around at the room that had at one time been finished (probably in the 60’s) and thought about how we’re leaving and we would not have the chance to finish so many house projects that we had started…
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Thunder Bay

When Mennonite missionaries began reaching out into First Nation communities in the 1950s, Red Lake was the literal end of the road. There were trails to northern communities but no roads. Float planes were often used for transportation. Today, some places have all weather roads while some are only connected by ice roads for about…
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