For a long time, the small triangular property near Afton Station in northeastern Nova Scotia couldn’t be developed. The Trans-Canada Highway runs across this community land of the tribal Paqtnkek Mi’kmaw Nation, and the controlled-access highway divided the southern triangular parcel from the large northern property where the Paqtnkek Mi’kmaw have a health center and other buildings.
Then, in 2018, the Nova Scotia Department of Transportation and Infrastructure built a new interchange that included a bridge over the highway to connect the north and south community lands, says Matt Delorme, a professional engineer with Hatch Ltd. in Halifax. As its first
