Event
Our vision for northern housing is for every family to have a home that his healthy, well-constructed, well-maintained & energy efficient.
A good housing strategy is composed of partnerships, which build capacity as well as homes, using as many local materials as is ecologically or economically practical.
Date and Location
February 21 - 23, 2012, Canad Inns Polo Park, Winnipeg, MB
Special Room Rate:
$102 plus tax, to book a room call 1-888-332-2623 and quote Group Number 195433
Streams:
- Northern Housing Management
- Employment & Training in Forestry & Construction
- Northern Housing Technology
- Forestry Practices
- Community Planning
Forum Description:
Northern and Aboriginal communities are faced with many challenges in improving their housing. There are numerous models of successful partnerships in northern housing management and technology such as Frontiers Foundation’s Standing Tree to Standing Home program. In strategic planning workshop sessions, participants will learn how to combine employment and training, economic development, capital and social budgets toward training community members to build and maintain their housing stock using local resources and products. Communities will bring local information/ stats etc. to the Forum for use in planning sessions and workshops.
Submitted by tupac on January 18, 2012 - 12:05am.
Great News!
Our Guest of Honour and Speaker at our 2011 Annual Breakfast will be Hon. Lincoln Alexander, our esteemed Honourable Patron for decades.
"Linc", former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario has been a profoundly valued friend of Charles Catto since 1960, and has been a no-holds-barrel supporter of Operation Beaver whenever and wherever we needed his prestigious voice.
Submitted by tupac on June 5, 2011 - 8:48am.
There is an exciting opportunity to raise $60,000 to build a 3 bedroom frame house at Jocko Point, Ontario through www.GiveMeaning.com. GiveMeaning.com is a website dedicated to helping charities like Frontiers raise funds, at no cost to the charity.
The proposed project to provide a home for the Fitzgerald family was already submitted. However, before the fundraising on the GiveMeaning web page can begin, we need your VOTES (by e-mail) supporting this initiative. You can use this link: http://www.givemeaning.com/proposal/Canada (and click on “Vote Nowâ€). You then must follow the steps to vote for the project, which does not commit you financially. (It does also give you an opportunity to say good things about Frontiers/Beaver which would help a lot).
Submitted by frontiers on November 7, 2007 - 1:59pm.
On Thursday November 9 in Gatineau, Quebec, Mr. Louis Verrete, Mme. Nathalie Brink, Mr. Rod Haney and Mme. Abbe Assefa of Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) welcomed Haitian Dr. Hans Beauvoir Chief Medical Officer for St. Michel de L’Attalaye, Mr. Pierrot Casimit, Consul-General of Haiti in Montreal. Also attending, representing Frontiers Foundation, were Mrs. Tinie Evans, Ms. Bonnie Joyce and Rev. Dr. Charles Catto.
Submitted by frontiers on December 21, 2006 - 5:06pm.
Frontiers Foundation an Aboriginal voluntary service organization recently celebrated its 42nd Anniversary of Operation Beaver at the Royal Bank of Canada. Over a hundred people among past and current Operation Beaver volunteers, Frontiers Board, supporters and friends old and new gathered at the 40th Floor of RBC, 200 Bay Street in downtown Toronto early on Thursday June 29, 2006. M.C. Bonnie Johnston welcomed everyone including special guests like Mr.
Submitted by frontiers on July 7, 2006 - 11:23pm.
Frontiers Foundation is the largest aboriginal voluntary service organization in Canada. We have a long standing commitment to the dreams, justice and aspirations of women, men and children. Having a secure, safe, warm place to live, is a fundamental element of human dignity. FF has a well deserved record of housing construction /renovation programs in Canada through its Operation Beaver program. Frontiers Foundation's dedication to housing issues and the value of partnership for over 39 years has enabled us to build an unparalled relationship with First Nation citizens of this country. Recently completed housing construction projects in the last three years include: Batchawana Bay, Whitefish Falls, Larder Lake, Smiths Falls, Jellicoe, Raith, Swastika, Walford, Goulais River, Foleyet, Kearns, and Massey. The majority of these homes are built in partnership with local volunteers and some Operation Beaver volunteers.
Submitted by frontiers on September 16, 2003 - 1:16pm.
