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Pessamit First Nation

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Phonetic: Pes-sa-mit

Geographical location of territory

Territory map
Company Name1 : Conseil des Innus de Pessamit
Chief: Mr. Raphaël Picard
Councillors:

Ms. Elisabeth Bacon
Mr. Adélard Benjamin
Ms. Andrée Paul
Ms. Marielle Vachon
Mr. Paul Vollant
Ms. Adélina Bacon
Languages: Innu, french
Adress: 2, rue Ashini (C.P. 40)
Betsiamites (Québec)
G0H 1B0
Phone: 418-567-2265 (Poste 8488)
1-800-463-1833
Fax: 418-567-8560
Web site: www.pessamit.ca  


DEMOGRAPHY

Population
Number of persons
within the community		 Number of persons
outside the community		 Total

2 920

797

3 717

Reference: Indian Registry, AANDC, December 2010


GEOGRAPHY

Territory Name: Betsiamites Reserve
Type of territory: Indian reserve
Surface: 25 242 hectares (62 373 acres)
Localisation:  The reserve is located on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River, 54 kilometres southwest of Baie-Comeau.
Remoteness Factor: Year-round road access and located less than 50 kilometres from the nearest service center.


POLITIC

Elections: Customary process
Tribal Council 3:  None
Member of Parliament: Mr. Jonathan Genest-Jourdain, New Democratic Party (NDP)
Manicouagan
Provincial MNA:

Mr. Marjolain Dufour, Parti québécois (PQ)
René-Lévesque


ECONOMY

The Société d'aménagement et de développement forestier de Betsiamites is a corporation operating autonomously from the Band council and whose consists primarily in logging the forests making up a sizeable portion of reserve territory. The Société ranks second, after the Band council, as community employer. Its mission is to manage the reserve's logging and forest management activities and to promote job creation.

The Société de développement économique de Betsiamites is the organization responsible for overseeing economic development and the promotion of entrepreneurship.

The founding of the Société d'investissement et de promotion du parc industriel is the first step in a process leading to the development of an industrial park.

The corporation known as Développement touristique de Betsiamites is charged with running  the Centre de villégiature PapAANDChois, a resort, and the Pourvoirie du Lac-des-Îles, an outfitter's.

Projects involving mining resources, wind power and hydroelectricity are currently underway.


EDUCATION

Band SchoolAANDC) funds band councils and First Nation education authorities for the education of children in Kindergarten to Grade 12 who attend schools on reserves or who attend provincially-run schools off reserve. Approximately 60% of First Nations students are taught on reserve, almost always in schools operated by a band council, another First Nations organization, or a federal school. ">4 on the territory:

School Name: École Nussim
Grades:   Pre-Kindergarden to Elementary 6
Number of students: 351 (2010-2011)

School Name: École Uashkaikan
Grades:   Secondary 1 to Secondary 5
Number of students: 206 (2010-2011)

School Enrolment 2010-2011
  Band School Provincial School Total
Pre-kindergarden

38

---

38
Kindergarden 56 --- 56
Elementary 272 22 294
Secondary 206 39 245
Total : 572 61 633
Education (2010-2011)
Source : First Nation Database Management System (FNDBMS)
Nominal Roll / Post-Secondary list

Number of students funded by postsecondary programAANDC) provides financial support to eligible Status Indians and Inuit students under broad authorities of the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Act to continue their education. ">5 : 95 (2010-2011)


COMMUNITY SERVICES AND INFRASTRUCTURES

Fire protection: Fire station, fire engine, firefighting equipment
Police services: Provided by the Aboriginal police force recognized under an agreement between the Band council, the Government of Canada and the Government of Quebec.
Medical care: Nursing station managed by the Band council under a transfer agreement with Health Canada.
Waste disposal: Landfill site, garbage collection by the Band council
Main community facilities: Community radio station, church, outdoor skating rink, resort, cable system, community centre, arena, youth centre, hardware store
Water Supply: Treated surface water, reservoir, piped water from municipal mains
Sewers: Wastewater sewer system and storm sewer system; aerated ponds
Road system: 6.9 kilometres of gravel road and 6.7 kilometres of blacktop
Housing Units: 752 (2010-2011)
Electricity: Provided by Hydro-Québec

Définitions: 
1) Company Name: The corporate name of a company or a civil company (i.e. its name) is often made of credits, which name in a general way the company or the civil company, and of specific, which distinguishes this company from the others.
2)

“Council of the band” means:

(a) in the case of a band to which section 74 applies, the council established pursuant to that section,

(b) in the case of a band to which section 74 does not apply, the council chosen according to the custom of the band, or, where there is no council, the chief of the band chosen according to the custom of the band;

“band” means a body of Indians :

(a) for whose use and benefit in common, lands, the legal title to which is vested in Her Majesty, have been set apart before, on or after September 4, 1951,

(b) for whose use and benefit in common, moneys are held by Her Majesty, or

(c) declared by the Governor in Council to be a band for the purposes of this Act;
3) Tribal Council : Tribal Councils are defined as institutions established as a grouping of bands with common interests who voluntarily join together to provide advisory and/or program services to member bands.
4)

Band School: Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC) funds Band councils and First Nation education authorities for the education of children in Kindergarten to Grade 12 who attend schools on reserves or who attend provincially-run schools off reserve.

Approximately 60% of First Nations students are taught on reserve, almost always in schools operated by a Band council, another First Nations organization, or a federal school.
5) Post-Secondary Education Programs: Indian Affairs and Northern Development (AANDC) provides financial support to eligible Status Indians and Inuit students under broad authorities of the the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Act to continue their education.
 

Reference: http://lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/I-5/page-1.html  

For further information on this community please call at 1-800-567-9604 or click on this link toward community profiles of Statistics Canada   (2006 Census).

Date Modified:2010-09-15

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