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In 2007 and 2008, the Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nation worked closely with the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation to oppose uranium exploration in the Sharbot Lake area. Both communities took part in a non-violent blockade of a proposed mining site, and were involved in legal action against the prospecting company Frontenac Ventures. [2]
Frontenac staked the land for uranium exploration in the Sharbot Lake area of Ontario. The land is the traditional territory of Algonquins First Nations peoples in the area and is unceded that is the basis of a land claim. Members of the First Nation barricaded the entrance when it was discovered Frontenac had started exploration on the land.
Ardoch Algonquin is a non-status Algonquin (Anishinaabe) community that is located around the Madawaska, Mississippi and Rideau watersheds, north of Kingston, Ontario. [1]As non-status Indians (not recognized as an Indian Band by the federal Indian Act or any provincial government) Ardoch members are sometimes involved in intra-community politics.
Members of the Algonquin tribe have been peacefully blockading a uranium mining operation on their sacred lands north of Kingston, Ontario since June 29, 2007. [9] Other indigenous opposition against uranium mining has become a long-standing tradition, particularly in Saskatchewan. [2]
Lake Algonquin was a prehistoric proglacial lake that existed in east-central North America at the time of the last ice age. Parts of the former lake are now Lake Huron , Georgian Bay , Lake Superior , Lake Michigan , Lake Nipigon , and Lake Nipissing .
Miliken Lake Mine is located approximately one mile from Elliot Lake. [4] The site is bounded on the west and the south by Nordic Mine, and on the north by Stanleigh Mine and on the east by Lake Nordic Mine. [4] The property was first staked in 1953 and purchased by Miliken Lake Uranium Mines Ltd in 1954, before being sold to Rio Tinto in 1956. [4]
Glacial Lake Algonquin; 9,000 – 7,000 YBP [10] Lake Chippewa; 10,700 – 7,500 YBP, [1] covered the lowest elevations in the Lake Michigan basin forming a linear lake in the middle, linked by a narrow proto-Straits of Mackinac and the Mackinac Falls to Lake Stanley. [1]
Elliot Lake: Agnew Lake Mine: Hyman Township Kerr Addison Mines Ltd. 1977–1983 Buckles Mine: near Elliot Lake Rio Algom: 1957–1958 Can–Met Mine: near Elliot Lake Denison Mines: 1957–1960 Denison Mine: near Elliot Lake Denison Mines: 1957–1992 Lacnor Mine: near Elliot Lake Rio Algom: 1957–1960 Milliken Mine: near Elliot Lake Rio ...