Flooded fishing camp south of Cross Lake “Neither Cree culture, Cree values, nor the native communities affected [by hydro flooding] are against change, but we cannot and do not condone a project which changes 50,000 miles of life-creating and life-supporting shorelines and which floods some 415,000 acres of ancestral lands.” – Northern Flood Committee brief, 1975

Inundated shoreline south of Cross Lake “Our land is our life and our shorelines are our future.” – Northern Flood Committee brief, 1975

Drowned out campsite near Minago River Causeway (Cross Lake area) “The simple fact is that if the communities affected would have a choice in the matter . . . they would veto the project.” – Northern Flood Committee brief, 1975

Flooded shoreline near Minago River Causeway (Cross Lake area) “None of the damages . . . depicted in the pictures 1, 2, 3 and 4 [the first four photos in this gallery] were ever predicted or disclosed in any public document.” – Northern Flood Committee brief, 1975

Inaccessible trapline north of Notigi control structure (Nelson House area) “We have been asked to accept the [hydro] project in the name of the public good. Well, we are not prepared to do so.” – Northern Flood Committee brief, 1975

Debris and navigation hazards in Churchill River Diversion basin (Nelson House area) “We refuse to believe that we should be singled out to pay the price for society’s wasteful energy consumption.” – Northern Flood Committee brief, 1975