Brunswick House First Nation is an

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in the

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, located in the

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, northeast of

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. The First Nation have

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d for themselves the

Mountbatten 76A Mountbatten 76A is a First Nations reserve near Kinogama in Sudbury District, Ontario. It is one of two reserves of the Brunswick House First Nation Brunswick House First Nation is an Ojibway-Cree First Nations in the Canadian province of Onta ...

Indian Reserve and the

Duck Lake 76B Duck Lake 76B is a First Nations reserve in Sudbury District, Ontario. It is one of two reserves for the Brunswick House First Nation Brunswick House First Nation is an Ojibway-Cree First Nations in the Canadian province of Ontario, located in ...

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

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Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service The Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service (NAPS), also occasionally known as the Nishnawbe Aski Police Service (without a hyphen) is the police agency for Nishnawbe-Aski Nation (NAN). As of July 2020, NAPS has 34 detachments in NAN communities across the ...

, an Aboriginal-based service.

Background

Originally known as the New Brunswick House Band of Ojibway, the Ojibway people who during the

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era traded primarily at the

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posts at Brunswick Lake and

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became a signatory to

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. Originally, the Band had reserved for themselves the 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 of the Mountbatten 76A were exchanged in 1973 for an equivalent area of land closer to

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Governance

Brunswick House First Nation elects their leaders through the Act Electoral System, consisting of a Chief and six Councillors. The current Chief is Cheryl St. Denis. Together with Councillors Kevin Tangie, Christine Venedam, Andrew Neshawabin, Gisele Noel, Renae VanBuskirk, and Kevin Lacroix. 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 Nishnawbe Aski Nation (ᐊᓂᐦᔑᓈᐯ ᐊᔅᑭ ᐃᔥᑯᓂᑲᓇᓐ ᐅᑭᒫᐎᓐ (''Anishinaabe-aski Ishkoniganan Ogimaawin''), unpointed: ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯ ᐊᔅᑭ ᐃᔥᑯᓂᐊᓇᓐ ᐅᑭᒪᐎᓐ; NAN for short) is a political orga ...

, a Tribal Political Organization.

External links

Brunswick House First NationNAN profile for Brunswick HouseAANDC profile for Brunswick House
Communities in Sudbury District Nishnawbe Aski Nation Hudson's Bay Company trading posts {{NorthernOntario-geo-stub