FORT SMITH METIS COUNCIL: federal grants and contributions

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)

• Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency
• Community Readiness Opportunities Planning
• Northwest Territories

Reaching Home aims to prevent and reduce homelessness across Canada. This is accomplished by mobilizing partners at the federal, provincial/territorial and community levels, as well as the private and voluntary sectors, and other stakeholders, to address barriers to well-being faced by those who are homeless or at imminent risk of homelessness.

• Department of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities
• Reaching Home

The Thebacha Recreational Area, officially named Little “Ma” MacDonald Park who was a cherished elder spending all her life in the area, has been maintained by the Fort Smith Metis Council (FSMC) since the late 1970’s. The site is 2km south of where the Salt River and the Slave Rivers come together. The area has significant historical meaning to the Metis of the NWT as it is the location that our Patriarch Francois Beaulieu (b. 1771) established himself and began trading in salt he gathered from the natural salt plains located 20 kms further south of the area (now located in Wood Buffalo Natio

• Department of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities
• Active Transportation Fund

P008672, P008633, P008989

• Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada
• Northern Affairs

P012593

• Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada
• Northern Affairs

P014629

• Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada
• Northern Affairs

P066127

• Indigenous Services Canada
• CIRNAC - Northern Affairs

The objectives of the Program are: .• promoting volunteerism among seniors; .• engaging seniors in the community through.mentoring of others; .• expanding awareness of elder abuse, including.financial abuse; .• supporting social participation and inclusion of.seniors; and .• providing capital assistance for new and existing.community projects and/or programs for seniors. .

• Employment and Social Development Canada
• New Horizons for Seniors Program
• Northwest Territories

This project aims to provide a youth with some work experience in the agriculture and agri-food sector.

• Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
• Youth Employment and Skills Program

• Reaching Home
• Active Transportation Fund

All grants from Department of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities

• Northern Affairs

All grants from Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada

• Community Readiness Opportunities Planning

All grants from Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency

• CIRNAC - Northern Affairs

All grants from Indigenous Services Canada

• New Horizons for Seniors Program

All grants from Employment and Social Development Canada

• Youth Employment and Skills Program

All grants from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

• Reaching Home

• Community Readiness Opportunities Planning
• New Horizons for Seniors Program

• Active Transportation Fund
• Youth Employment and Skills Program

• CIRNAC - Northern Affairs

• Northern Affairs

• Northern Affairs

• Northern Affairs