A16- The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 3, 1996 nected to land claims in the country is to receive a top prize April 10 in Winnipeg. Frank Calder will receive a lifetime achievement award as part of the 1996 National Aboriginal Achievement Awards. He’s best known for what is called the Calder case, the one filed by the Nisga'a in the 1960s that went all the way to the Supreme Court. The Calder case resulted in Supreme Court justices dividing evenly on whether or not aboriginal tide to land existed. That case opened up the prospect of land claims settlements in Canada. For the Nisga’a it ultimately lead to the negotiations which, last month, resulted in a land claims agreement in principle with the Nisga’a Tribal Council. Now 80, Calder was the president of the tribal council for 19 years and took part in POLITICIAN AND LEADER Frank Calder receives a national aboriginal achievement award April 10, He's one of the founders of the Nisga'a Tribal Council and was an early proponent of the attempt to settle its land claim, Calder honoured THE MAN WHOSE name is most con-— its formation in 1955, He also had a lengthy political career in Victoria, being first elected in 1949 to represent the northern part of the province as a member of the Co-operative Com- monwealth Federation, That association continued when the CCF became the New Democratic Party and he became a cabinet minister in the 1972 Dave Barrett government. Calder did switch political allegiances and ended his outside political career by being a Social Credit MLA for one term. Although retired from active political life, Calder has been present at significant Nisga’a land claims ceremonies and did travel to Kincolith two weeks ago to per- suade reluctant Nisga’a residents there that the tentative land claims deal should be supported. He’s also said to be writing his memoirs. Kincolith road cost tagged at $30 million PROVINCIAL PAYERS won’t knw hal they’ll be chipping in to fi- nance an estimated $30 mil- lion road connecting a remote Nass Valley village for some time. That’s because a provin- cial financing authority is first going to try and Jine up aS much private money as possible for the road be- tween Greenville and Kin- colith. The road, which could stretch 26km depending upon a final route selection, has been wanted by Kin- colith for years, The only way into the vil- lage on the mouth of the Nass River is by boat or by plane, Its construction possibility received a boost when fed- eral Indian affairs minister Ron Irvin, in Kincolith for the Nisga’a Tribal Council convention last year, said the federal government would kick in one-third of the project cost to a maxi- mum $15 million. That worked out to $10 million, based on the $30 million project estimate, and the federal government has already sent a cheque to the province’s Transportation Financing Authority, The federal amount could inctease if the project costs exceeds $30 million but it is capped al a maximum $15 tnillion. The Nisga’a, through vari- ous ctiterprises located in the Nass, have committed themselves to approximately $5 million in cash or in kind, leaving the provincial share at a possible $15 mil- lion. But Transportation Financing Authority official Ian McLeod says it is now on the hunt for money from resource-based companies who stand to benefit from the road connection, “Obviously we can’t give you an exact figure until we have completed that search,”’ said McLeod. “People think it’s our jab ta spend money, but it’s not. We're out to bring in part- ners for this and any other project.” He added that the partner- Ship financing arrangement is also being pursucd with the plan for a road and bridge connection project between Prince Rupert, its Digby Island airport and several coastal villages. In the meantime the Nisga’a are forging ahcad with their commitment by beginning work on a 4.1km Stretch leading from Kin- colith east to a place called Mill Bay on the Nass River, That road will be to high- way ministry standards and is also part of a Nisga’a plan to open up that area to log- ging and other uses. The remainder of the work is to be divided into two phases and could take as long as six to eight years to complete, says highways ministry official Dave St, Thomas. He describes the project as complex and environmental- ly sensitive, “This year, 1996-1997, we'll be working on design and cngineering and that will be followed by environ- mental work and an ar- chacological —_inventory,’’ said St. Thomas. One major river has to be crossed and as many as eight or nine bridges span- ning crecks will be required. Some portions of the road may have to be blasted from the Nass River’s banks while’ other portions may have to mun along ils shore, said St. Thomas. Based on the engineering and environmental work re- quired, St. Thomas isn’t predicling a construction Start until the spring of 1997, And there’s a chance the planning work may take ~ longer because the project may require approval through the federal and provincial cnvironmental as- sessment process, A road connecting Kin- colith to the rest of the Nass Valley is expected to help allay fears from villagers that they are losing out from the tentative Nisga’a land claims deal. Atone time Kincolith was considered the main Nisga’a village but that has changed in the past decades with Toad improvements north of Terrace to New Aiyansh and other portions of the Nass Valley. As a consequence, com- mercial and other activity has shifted from Kincolith ta those other villages. As well, Kincolith’s de- pendence on boat and plane travel has allied it more with Prince Rupert and other coasial villages than with the inland portions of the Nass Valley, Cable cut off SKEENA BROAD- CASTERS workers spent some long hours last week adjusting their cablevision signals after a satellite lost half of its power, A connection between 4 solar panel and the main body of the Anik E-1 satel- lite broke, cutting power and blacking out the majori- ty of the TV signals to Skeena Broadcasters and other cable TV companies across the country. It took about a day but technicians were able to switch satellite TV recep- tion from Anik E-1 to Anik E-2, says Art Hill of Skeena Broadcasters. **E-1 is still partially func- tional but at half power it can only do half as much,” said Hill. 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