Northwestern Ontario

Northwestern Ontario: On the opposite side of the Trans-Canada Highway, a downtrodden young man, a filled plastic garbage bag slung over each shoulder, saunters past a long-idle train toward the swampy lowland of the Long Lake No. 58 First Nations reserve , according to Huffington Post. Two kilometres east is Longlac, the self-proclaimed Gateway to Northwestern Ontario and last stop for eastbound travellers 14 hours from Toronto in search of a coffee shop or motel ahead of a 200-kilometre stretch of uninhabited land and BETWEEN LONG LAKE No. 58 AND LONGLAC, Ont. Along this desolate stretch of Northern Ontario highway, an idyllic white chapel is perched on the point of a peninsula next to to a No Swimming sign wedged into the poisoned shoreline that juts into glistening Long Lake. There are no job opportunities where he is headed and no businesses, save for a single band-owned gas bar. Dilapidated box houses, many boarded and abandoned, line the three roads that form the reserve. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.