The North West Company says it plans to have a temporary grocery store open to the people of Shamattawa Monday after the remote First Nation's only grocery store burned down last week. The Northern Store in Shamattawa, located about 750 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg, was destroyed in a fire Thursday. Reimer said the company has arranged to set up a temporary grocery store in an abandoned school gym in the community. Workers with the North West Company load up a plane with food and supplies headed for Shamattawa, Man., Friday afternoon. "It's too bad that we lost both of our buildings, the band office, the business centre of the community and the only grocery store in Shamattawa," he said.

Source: CBC News September 26, 2016 11:08 UTC