Charles Catto, Frontiers Foundation founder, with a Cree family in front of their home.
In 1955, God’s Lake Narrows was a small, isolated, poor Aboriginal Cree community. Located in northern Manitoba. Standard homes consisted of dilapidated shacks without hydro, tap water or indoor toilets.
Charles Catto, the Founding Director of Frontiers Foundation Inc. was a newly ordained United Church minister and whose first ministry was at God’s Lake Narrows, Manitoba.
Manitoba would later become the site of the first Operation Beaver project.
