More People to Be Evacuated From Flood-Threatened James Bay Communities

By THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO – An airlift of the remaining some 1,100 people from the flood-threatened Kashechewan area in northern Ontario is to begin Monday.

They’ll be flown to Perth County municipalities in southern Ontario, including Stratford, East Perth and St. Marys. More than 730 residents were evacuated from Kashechewan and Fort Albany Sunday after the airlift had been halted because of poor weather.

Another 23 people from a medical clinic in Attawapiskat were flown to Winnipeg and northern Ontario to escape the fast-rising Albany River.

More than half of the 415 people evacuated from Kashechewan are being housed in Cochrane while the others are in Geraldton and Sudbury.

Most of the 333 residents airlifted from Fort Albany are Kapuskasing while the others are in Hearst and other northeast communities.