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The only way in and out of the East Prairie Métis Settlement is a 40-kilometre range road that connects with Highway 2 some 360 kilometres northwest of Edmonton.
HIGH PRAIRIE, Alta. The only way in and out of the East Prairie Metis Settlement is a 40-kilometre range road that connects with Highway 2 some 360 kilometres northwest of Edmonton.
If wildfires were to ignite both on the south and north ends at the same time, the chair of East Prairie says the community would have been trapped inside