53 years after landslide, Salt River First Nation families get land title
Posted: May 21, 2021 11:43 AM CT | Last Updated: May 21 A man walks in front of the Salt River First Nation Business and Conference Centre in Fort Smith, N.W.T., pictured in 2019.(Mario Di Ciccio/Radio-Canada) For a lifetime, families displaced by a catastrophic landslide have lived in homes built on land they couldn't buy or sell, but in a "historic" move, the title will now be transferred from Canada to Salt River First Nation families. In 1968, a landslide changed the face of Fort Smith forever, and displaced Salt River First Nation families onto lands where they built new homes. But as it...