Meaning of Aq'am | Babel Free

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Noun. [B1]

Examples

“In April, 2023, Mr. Gray helped carry out a fire treatment near the Ktunaxa Nation community of Aq'am, outside Cranbrook, B.C., that was widely credited with helping save homes and protect the nearby regional airport during a wildfire later that summer.”

“Last April, Aq'am, along with fire crews from nearby communities and the B.C. Wildfire Service, undertook a large-scale, 12-square-kilometre prescribed burn on Aq'am lands north of the St. Mary River and east of the Canadian Rockies International Airport.”

“Near the Aq’am First Nation in November, B.C.-based fire ecologist Bob Gray looks out at forests destroyed by a wildfire four months earlier. The danger to populated areas could have been worse if not for a prescribed burn in April on some other Aq’am land.”

“The statement says the Aq'am community conducted the search in 2020. It also says the residential school operated from 1912 to the 1970s.”

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