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About Beaverhouse First Nation
Beaverhouse First Nation is an Anishinabe community whose homeland lies along the Misema River system northeast of Kirkland Lake, Ontario.
Beaverhouse First Nation takes its name from the Algonquin name of the river, Maaseema Qweesh. Qweesh refers to a beaver's nest or house. Other First Nation organizations recognized the people as Anishinabe. The community's old settlement sits on the banks of the Misema River system northeast of Kirkland Lake. No road leads there, so people travel by boat in summer and by snow machine in winter.
The Nation says that it and its ancestors never signed Treaty 9 or any other treaty, and no reserve was set aside for it in 1906. Generations of leaders worked for recognition. Chief Roy Meaniss started the legal process in the 1980s, and Chiefs Gloria McKenzie and Marcia Brown Martel carried it on. The claim went to Canada and Ontario in July 2018. In a letter dated April 19, 2022, Canada said that Beaverhouse First Nation "has demonstrated it is a section 35 rights-bearing First Nation collectivity."
The Nation's mission is to build a community where people may live with dignity and in harmony with each other and nature. Its programs include:
- Aboriginal Diabetes Initiative
- Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program
- Choose Life Program and Crisis Intervention
- Family support and well-being programs
- FASD program
- Healthy Babies Healthy Children
- Governance, and Lands and Resources
- Youth mental health and youth programs
The band office is in Kirkland Lake. Beaverhouse First Nation is a member of Nishnawbe-Aski Nation and became an affiliate member of Wabun Tribal Council in 1990. You can learn more on the official website.
- People
- Anishinabe
- Treaty
- Non-signatory to any treaty; located within the Treaty 9 area
- Tribal council
- Wabun Tribal Council
- Headquarters
- Kirkland Lake
- Province
- Ontario
- Nearest city
- Kirkland Lake
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