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VNFC is able to give out tax receipts because it is this type of agency.
What is a charity?
This is the year that the first Friendship Centre incorporated in Winnipeg.
What is 1959?
This is the number of Indigenous people living in the Capital Regional District.
Who are 17,000 Indigenous people including those living on reserve?
This document dictates many aspects of Aboriginal life including rights, access to traditional territories, governance structure, membership, etc.
What is the Indian Act?
Who is Executive Director, Ron Rice?
This group of volunteers are fiduciarily responsible for VNFC and sets the agencies mandate and strategic direction.
Who is the Board of Directors?
This is the number of Friendship Centres in BC.
What is 25; 6 on Vancouver Island, 3 lower-mainland, 4 Northwest, 4 Northeast, 8 in the Interior?
This is the number of reserves within the CRD.
What are 10 First Nations reserves?
This card identifies someone as a registered First Nations person in Canada under the Indian Act.
What is an Indian status card?
They are the longest running employee of the VNFC?
Who is Assistant Executive Director, Kari Hutchison, at 27 years?
This is the approximate number of people who work at VNFC.
What is 115 staff including full-time, part-time, and term employees?
This is the name of the provincial umbrella agency in BC that works to support local Friendship Centres.
What is the BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres?
This is the number of municipalities and electoral areas with the CRD.
What is 13 municipalities and 3 electoral areas?
This many countries in the world currently have race-based laws that govern only targeted segments of the population.
What is one country, Canada through the Indian Act?
These lovely people are members of the Management Team and help the Team Leads succeed in their roles.
Who are the Clinical Supervisors: Shona Collison, Michele Nault McIsaac, Kalynka Cherkosh
This was the date of incorporation for the VNFC.
What is August 4, 1969?
This is the number of Friendship Centres nationally.
What is 120 Friendship Centres across every province and territory except PEI?
These are the Nations on whose traditional territories the VNFC offers services.
Who are the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples represented by the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations and the W̱SÁNEĆ peoples represented by the W̱JOȽEȽP (Tsartlip), BOḰEĆEN (Pauquachin), SȾÁUTW̱(Tsawout), W̱SIḴEM (Tseycum) and MÁLEXEȽ (Malahat) Nations?
This clause was repealed from the Indian Act in 1951 and was the main reason why Friendship Centres were started.
What were the restrictions on mobility or "pass system" for reserve Indians?
They run the Finance Department.
Who is Shirley Franklin?
This program/service was developed special for the VNFC to respond to the unique needs of our community.
Trick Question. All programs and services offered by VNFC are unique because they are designed and delivered by our own staff based on their knowledge of our own community's needs.
This is the name of the national office of the Friendship Centres.
What is the National Association of Friendship Centres?
They are the Mayor of the CRD.
Trick Question. The CRD has a Board of Directors and Colin Plant is the Chair. The Mayor of Victoria is Lisa Helps and the Mayor of Saanich is Fred Haynes.
This is the year the Indian Act ceased to exist.
Trick Question. The Indian Act still exists.
This volunteer acts as the President of the VNFC Board of Directors.
Who is Shelley Cardinal?