Brunswick House First Nation

Brunswick House First Nation is an Ojibway-Cree First Nation in the Canadian province of Ontario, located in the Sudbury District, 157 kilometres (97.6 mi) northeast of Sault Ste Marie, Ontario. The First Nation have reserved for themselves the 9,054.2 hectares (22,373.4 acres) Mountbatten 76A Indian Reserve and the 259.8 hectares (642.0 acres) Duck Lake 76B Indian Reserve. As of June, 2008, it had a registered population of 639 people, of which their on-Reserve population was 171 people.

Brunswick House is policed by the Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service, an Aboriginal-based service.

Background

Originally known as the New Brunswick House Band of Ojibway, the Ojibway people who during the fur trade era traded primarily at the New Brunswick House posts at Brunswick Lake and Missinaibi Lake became a signatory to Treaty 9. Originally, the Band had reserved for themselves the 17,280 acres (6,993.0 ha) New Brunswick House 76 Indian Reserve, but on June 1, 1925, the Ontario government established the Chapleau Game Preserve which surrounded (and did not explicitly exclude) the New Brunswick House reserve and was closed to all hunting and trapping. The Ontario government subsequently purchased reserve land from the federal government in 1928. In 1947, the federal government purchased a tract of land in Mountbatten Township from the Ontario government and established the Mountbatten 76A Indian Reserve. The Band moved to its present reserve at Duck Lake 76B Indian Reserve after 642 acres (259.8 ha) of the Mountbatten 76A were exchanged in 1973 for an equivalent area of land closer to Chapleau, Ontario.

Governance

Brunswick House First Nation elects their leaders through the Act Electoral System, consisting of a Chief and six Councillors. The current Chief is Kevin Tangie. Together with Councillors Jennifer Wesley, Majorie Tangie and Irene Redbreast, Lorraine Tangie, Beverly Perreault.

Brunswick House First Nation is a member of the Wabun Tribal Council, a Regional Chiefs' Council, which in turn is member of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation, a Tribal Political Organization.

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v t e Nishnawbe Aski Nation
Independent First Nations Alliance	Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug Lac Seul Muskrat Dam Pikangikum Whitesand
Keewaytinook Okimakanak Council	Deer Lake Fort Severn Keewaywin McDowell Lake North Spirit Lake Poplar Hill
Matawa First Nations	Aroland Constance Lake Eabametoong Ginoogaming Hornepayne Long Lake 58 Marten Falls Neskantaga Nibinamik Webequie
Mushkegowuk Council	Attawapiskat Chapleau Cree Fort Albany Kashechewan Missanabie Cree Moose Cree Taykwa Tagamou Weenusk
Shibogama First Nations Council	Kasabonika Lake Kingfisher Wapekeka Wawakapewin Wunnumin Lake
Wabun Tribal Council	Beaverhouse Brunswick House Chapleau Ojibway Flying Post Matachewan Mattagami Wahgoshig
Windigo First Nations Council	Bearskin Lake Cat Lake Koocheching North Caribou Lake (Weagamow Lake) Sachigo Lake Slate Falls Whitewater
Independent NAN Communities	Mishkeegogamang Mocreebec Council Sandy Lake

v t e Sudbury District, Ontario
Towns	Espanola French River Killarney Markstay-Warren St. Charles
Townships	Baldwin Chapleau Nairn and Hyman Sables-Spanish Rivers
First Nations	Atikameksheng Anishnawbek Brunswick House Chapleau Cree Chapleau Ojibway Mattagami Michipicoten Whitefish River Wiikwemkoong
Indian reserves	Chapleau 61 Chapleau 61A Chapleau 74 Chapleau 74A Chapleau 75 Chapleau Cree Fox Lake Duck Lake 76B Mattagami 71 Mountbatten 76A Point Grondine 3 Whitefish Lake 6 Whitefish River 4
Unorganized area	Unorganized North Part
Local services boards	Cartier Foleyet Gogama Rainbow Country
See also: Communities in Sudbury District Census divisions of Ontario