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HIGH PRAIRIE, Alta. — Carrol Johnston points at flowering peonies in her otherwise charred garden as she walks through her property in a northern Alberta Métis settlement.
Carrol Johnston points at flowering peonies in her otherwise charred garden as she walks through her property in a northern Alberta Métis settlement.
The East Prairie Metis Settlement lost about 40 homes, of which 14 were inhabited at the time of the wildfire.
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In the last two months, wildfires burned more than 14,000 square kilometres across the province and forced 38,000 Albertans out of their homes
Carrol Johnston, her son and daughter-in-law lost their 1,800-square-foot home and everything in it a day after they were evacuated from East Prairie Métis Settlement on May 5.