Construction is set to begin Thursday, June 25 on a bridge to Shoal Lake 40 First Nation.
The city of Winnipeg is to contribute four million dollars to build two bridges to Shoal Lake 40.
The city of Winnipeg, Manitoba and Ontario have all contributed for a road, built mostly through bogs, that will provide a year round link.
Permanent bridges will replace a temporary one that connects to a winter road.
Chief Erwin Redsky tells CTV News the finished project is at least three years away.
It is hoped that the gravel road, dubbed Freedom Road, will be finished and will permanently connect Shoal Lake to the Trans-Canada Highway.
The community straddles the provincial boundary and is the start of the aqueduct that supplies Winnipeg's drinking water.
Shoal Lake doesn't have an all-weather road connecting the reserve with the outside world.
