ACCESSIBILITY

Accessible by YES NO Road X Road – Winter X Air X Boat X

Means of Access: Highway 643 Aroland First Nation is located in Northern approximately 350 km northeast of . More specifically, the reserve lies 90 km north of Geraldton (Greenstone) and 25 km west of Nakina

Community Profile Aroland (Greenstone).

PTO: Nishnawbe-Aski Nation LANGUAGES TC: Matawa Management Linguistic Affiliation: English Population: 700 Mother Tongue: Ojibway On Reserve: 300 Off Reserve: 400 (April 2008) Ojibway is the dialect spoken within the community of Aroland. CONTACT INFORMATION GOVERNANCE Aroland First Nation P.O. Box 10 Election System YES NO Aroland, ON P0T 1B0 Custom electoral X Quorum X Phone: 1 (807) 329-5970 Term of office: 2 years Fax: 1 (807) 329-5750 ELECTORAL RIDINGS

OVERVIEW (F) Cochrane - Superior (P) Lake

BAND OFFICE

Phone: 1 (807) 329-5970 *if busy call 1(807) 329-5333

TITLE TEL Secretary Calls to Band Office staff Administration are referred through Ontario Works reception

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Economic Development hockey rink Officer (Interim) Arena X - real ice, very Cultural Coordinator / good Crisis Coordinator Community Hall - community Property / Business X playground Manager Playground X - school Employment Community playground Councillor - must be booked Housing Manager Gymnasium X with principal for Trainee use Mining Coordinator - available for all Tourism Coordinator Sports Field X sport types Water Plant Manager 329-5353 Pow-Wow Grounds X COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE Recreation Trails X BASIC YES NO COMMENTS Beach X Electricity X ON Hydro Water X On Site Approximately 1 km west of the community, on the Sewage X south shore of Wawong Lake, is the First Nation’s Solid waste disposal X MNR Dump Pow-Wow Grounds and a gathering area used for site swimming and recreational purposes. The Aroland COMMUNICATIONS First nation revealed 2 areas of cultural and Post X traditional significance. These include traditional Telephone X Bell Canada burial grounds on the shores of Kawashkagama Lake Newspapers X Chronicle and an historic portage route between Wawong Lake Journal and Kawashkagama River, A historical campsite is Television X Bell Express also located at the southern end of the portage. Star Choice Radio Stations X CBQ-AM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (CBC) Internet X T Bay Tel The Aroland First Nation’s past and current economic development projects include the TRANSPORTATION construction of the Johnny Therriault School, a Name bus X Aroland Bus Senior’s Complex, band office, Health Centre, Property Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service, and Tikinagan Child Taxi Service X Sam’s Taxi and Family Services. Several local area businesses such as the Gas Bar, Convenience Store, Tourist Outfitters and Taxi Company have appeared in Recent Years. COMMUNITY RECREATION FACILITIES Given the pressing nature of community’s needs, the Community Aroland First Nation had undertaken a “Community Recreation YES NO COMMENTS Capital Planning” to better define community’s needs Facilities and proposed long term solution by way of planning. - 2 yr. old outdoor

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 Post Secondary student leave the community to pursue their education in Program Name Yes No various cities such as Thunder Bay, Sault Library/resource centre X Ste. Marie, etc. Bing hall (radio bingo) X Day care centre X HEALTH Adult education centre X Senior citizens centre X Aroland Health Centre Homemakers Program (for X P.O. Box 10 Elders) Aroland, Ontario P0T 1B0 Phone: (807) 329-8787 or (807) 329-8686 Fax: (807) 329-8778 EDUCATION Email: [email protected]

Johnny Therriault Memorial School STAFF LISTING

Phone: (807) 329-5470 Title Telephone Fax: (807) 329-5472 Health Director Calls to all Health Center Community Health staff are referred through Staff consists of 8 teaching & education staff Representative reception ranging from Kindergarten – Grade 8 and a Referral Clerk Principal. NNADAP HB/HC Johnny Therriault Memorial School recently Coordinator opened this new education facility that will house THSP Kindergarten to grade eight classrooms. This 1,760 Worker/Diabetes square-meter facility will accommodate up to 120 Program students and has a full gymnasium. Coordinator Home Care Aroland Education Coordinator P.O. Box 40 Home Support Aroland, ON P0T 1B0 Worker Phone: (807) 329-5470 Maintenance Fax: (807) 329-5472 Worker

The Education Authority is comprised of a SERVICES Chairperson and four board Members. *There is currently no education board; however, Arloand is Tikanangan Child & Family Services Centre looking to create a new board. Aroland First Nation recently celebrated the grand opening of the Tikanagan Chilk & Family Services Centre (TCFSC) with an open house and luncheon. Secondary & Post Secondary The brand new facility was built to provide staff of the TCFSC with their own office space as they were  Aroland First Nation Students are bused to previously located in the band office. Geraldton to attend High School.

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Matawa Project Management Group assisted the First  Providing supports to communities, families Nation in securing financing and a lease agreement and individuals for thee 2,300 square foot office building. MPMG  Providing referral services for the clients or also provided design & construction drawings, families construction supervision, construction management  Providing family violence prevention and and consulting services throughout the duration of the awareness programs project. Aroland First Nation carpenters were hired to  Accessing on-going healing programs for construct the building that was completed on time clients of families and under budget.

Aroland First Nation Chief Sam Kashkeesh welcomed visitor form the community and across PROGRAM North Western Ontario to take a tour of the new facility and spoke of the important role TCFSC pays Program Name YES NO within the community. MPMG’s Dan Urgray and Community Health Promotion Carla Chisel attended the grand opening by & Injury Prevention X presenting Aroland First Nation with a gift. NNADP X Brighter Futures X Contact Information: CPNP X

Building Healthy General Delivery Communities X Aroland, ON ECD (Economic Community P0T 1B0 Development) X Phone: 807-329-5749 Home & Community Care X Fax: 807-329-5384 Healthy Babies / Healthy Children X Tikananhan Child & Family Services Centre Staff FASD Program X Title Telephone Medical Transportation Supervisor Ext. 2223 Services (Medical Appts.) X Child Care Worker Ext. 2224

Child Care Worker Ext. 2226 EMERGENCY SERVICES Child Care Worker Ext. 2227

Child Care Worker Ext. 2228 Aroland First Nation Fire Dept. Child Care Worker Ext. 2229 Phone: 807-329-9999 Secretary 807-329-5749 Medical emergency response/ ambulance services are provided by the township of Nakina (approx. 22km Aroland Crisis Team Coordinator from Alroland). In the event that Nakina is unable to provide assistance, the township of Geraldton Phone: (807) 329-5970 (approx.80km from Aroland) provides ambulance services. Crisis Intervention/Prevention & Family Violence Support Program (Survivors of Ambulance emergency calls - Nakina: Suicide & Family Violence Against Individuals) 807-329-5332 or 807-329-9292 Services Provided:

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Ambulance emergency calls - Geraldton: 807-854-1555 or B & V Variety Store Non-emergency administration line: 807-854-2204 BACKGROUND JUSTICE SECTOR The Aroland First Nation #242 gained status under Programs & Services: the Indian Act on April 15, 1985. Reserve lands have recently been dedicated to the First Nation by both NAPS Aroland Detachment Provincial and Federal governments. Reserve lands Box 149 would contain 19, 599 hectares (79.0 square miles) Nakina, ON and would extend northwards from Highway #643 to P0T 2H0 encompass lands along the western and northern Phone: (807) 329-1045 shores of Esnagami Lake. At present, these lands are Fax: (807) 329-1046 generally undeveloped with the exception of a single small community straddling on Highway #643 near Program Name YES NO the reserve’s southern boundary. NAPS X O.P.P. Nakina Detachment X HISTORY

Staffing: 2 Constables Historically, the original people of the Aroland Fist Nation were mainly members of the Ginoogaming O.P.P. North West Region (Long Lake # 77), Long Lake # 58, Eabametoong Nakina Community Policing via Greenstone (Fort Hope), or Fort William who settled on the 901 Main St. Kowashkagama River to the south of the existing Geraldton, ON village, The settlement occurred circa 1900 when P0T 1M0 residents were engaged in fur trading with the Phone: 807-854-1333 Hudson’s Bay Company, As the fur trade declined, Fax: 807-854-1353 native residents began working with the Arrow Land and Logging Company whose milling operations was Nakina Community Policing located between the river and today’s Canadian Phone: 807-329-5891 National Railway Lin (CNR). Closure of the lumber Fax/Mail: via Greenstone Det. mill in 1941 was followed by gradual northward movement of the community to its current location Aroland First Nation Businesses on Highway #643.

O’Sullivan Lake Gas Bar Nakina, ON P0T 2H0 Phone: (807) 329-5959

Towedo Buslines

Nakina, ON P0T 2H0 Phone: (807) 329-5991 Fax: (807) 329-5810

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