As the waters in the Albany River recede, evacuees from Kashechewan and the neighouring community of Fort Albany are heading back home.

Today we know them as Fort Albany and Kashechewan—two separate Cree communities on the James Bay Coast. But for centuries they were the joined together. They were the same people. The division ...

This summer, Toronto photojournalist Nick Kozak spent six weeks living in Fort Albany, a remote Cree First Nation on the western coast of James Bay. He’d already visited the reserve twice this ...

Fort Albany's full-scale evacuation order was paused on Thursday afternoon while members of the Kashechewan First Nation evacuate. This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 1, 2025 ...