A 4,500-kilometre Indigenous-led snowmobile expedition planned this winter to circle a large part of Quebec has been postponed until February 2023 due to COVID-19.
The Expédition First Nations Expedition was planned from mid-February to early March of this year, bringing together close to 60 riders from seven different nations, mostly Indigenous, to travel across Quebec.
Organizers made the decision to postpone the expedition against a backdrop of ongoing challenges caused by the Omicron wave of COVID-19, which has hit some of the Indigenous communities the riders planned to visit particularly hard.
“The communities were not ready to receive us. The spread of the
