First Nation members accepted a settlement for 29 claims within the town of Maniwaki and can request that 363 acres of land could be added to the reserve as part of the settlement
Indigenous and Northern Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett takes part in a ceremony where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivered an official apology to Inuit for the federal government’s management of tuberculosis in the Arctic from the 1940s to the 1960s during an event in Iqaluit, Nunavut on March 8, 2019.A Quebec First Nation has reached an agreement to settle 29 claims with the federal government and receive $116-million.
Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation is located near the Quebec municipality of Maniwaki, about 130 kilometres north of Ottawa, with more than 3,400 members.The members of the First Nation accepted a settlement for 29 claims within the town of Maniwaki and can request that 363 acres of land could be added to the reserve as part of the settlement, or approximately the size of 180 soccer fields.
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