Easterville/Chemawawin is a remote community situated approximately 200 kilometers from the Town of The Pas and 100 kilometers from the Town of Grand Rapids/Grand Rapids First Nation.

Easterville/Chemawawin First Nation consist of two separate communities, the Northern Affairs community of Easterville and Chemawawin First Nation, which are situated adjacent to each other on the south shore of Cedar Lake. The community and the Reserve relocated to this site in 1962-63 as a result of flooding of Cedar Lake caused by construction of the hydro dam on the Saskatchewan River, where it enters Lake Winnipeg at Grand Rapids. The flooding transformed Cedar Lake into a great reservoir. The Easterville/ Chemawawin First Nation area is a mixture of rock outcrops, small pockets of marsh and black spruce timber.

A mayor and council under “The Northern Affairs Act” govern Easterville a community of 80 (Province of Manitoba, Community profile 2003).

The Chemawawin First Nation, a community of 964 (Statistics Canada, 2001 Census) includes three reserve parcels of land, two of which are populated. Chemawawin First Nation No. 1 is located at Oleson Point on the south shore of Cedar Lake west of Easterville. This was the original site of the Reserve and is no longer populated. Chemawawin First Nation No. 2 is located adjacent to the community of Easterville on the southeast shore of Cedar Lake. Chemawawin First Nation No. 3 is located at the junction of Highway #60 and #327.

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