{"id":15257583,"date":"2026-08-16T21:19:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T01:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/kashechewan-evacuees-depart-niagara-falls-with-gratitude-chief\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T22:33:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T02:33:31","slug":"kashechewan-evacuees-depart-niagara-falls-with-gratitude-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/kashechewan-evacuees-depart-niagara-falls-with-gratitude-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Kashechewan evacuees depart Niagara Falls with gratitude: chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/ais\/0b31b4cf-0d53-48e2-bedb-ba2f7e9a3d4b,1786911128967\/full\/max\/0\/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%28457%2C137%2C4602%2C2588%29%3BResize%3D%28620%29\" alt=\"People march down a street\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" title=\"People march to Niagara Falls city hall on July 3 to protest comments made by a former city official suggesting city residents may believe that evacuees from Kashechewan staying a city hotels are people experiencing homelessness. The last of the more than 1,000 evacuees except a few who have to remain in Niagara due to health reasons flew home Sunday.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More than 1,000 evacuees from Kashechewan First Nation who spent eight months as evacuees in Niagara Falls hotels after a health emergency in their Northern Ontario community have returned home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inmi-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/hamilton\/kashechewan-evacuees-niagara-falls-crisis-9.7309237?cmp=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">News &#8211; Canada &#8211; Hamilton &#8211; cbc-ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 1,000 evacuees from Kashechewan First Nation who spent eight months as evacuees in Niagara Falls hotels after a health emergency in their Northern Ontario community have returned home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15257585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[405],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15257583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hamilton"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15257583-default.avif",620,349,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15257583-default-300x169.avif",300,169,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15257583-default.avif",620,349,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15257583-default.avif",620,349,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15257583-default.avif",620,349,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15257583-default.avif",620,349,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15257583-default.avif",620,349,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15257583-default.avif",620,349,false],"ignition_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15257583-default.avif",620,349,false],"ignition_item_lg":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15257583-default.avif",620,349,false],"ignition_article_media":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15257583-default-510x349.avif",510,349,true],"ignition_minicart_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15257583-default-160x160.avif",160,160,true],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15257583-default-24x24.avif",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15257583-default-48x48.avif",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15257583-default-96x96.avif",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15257583-default-150x150.avif",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/15257583-default-300x300.avif",300,300,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"news.iNthacity","author_link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/author\/atombo\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/articles\/news\/canada\/hamilton\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Hamilton<\/a>","tag_info":"Hamilton","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15257583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15257583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15257583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15257584,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15257583\/revisions\/15257584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15257585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15257583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15257583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15257583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}