Northwestern Ontario's Lac La Croix First Nation receives "transformational" land claim settlement

A settlement agreement was signed this week between Lac La Croix First Nation and the provincial and federal governments

A settlement agreement was signed this week between Lac La Croix First Nation and the provincial and federal governments – more than 20 years after the First Nation submitted its treaty land entitlement claim.

The semi-remote First Nation is located about 320 kilometres northwest of Thunder Bay, Ont. along the Ontario-Minnesota border. It has a registered population of 489 people and residents primarily speak Anishinaabemowin.

The settlement resolves a long-outstanding claim that Lac La Croix did not receive all the lands owed to it under Treaty 3, which was signed in 1873.

Now, 150 years later, a historical wrong has been addressed, said the First Nation's chief, Carrie Atatise-Norwegian.