Today, the Kaoham Shuttle – a partnership between Canadian National and the Seton Lake First Nation community – remains a vital service in an area where backcountry roads are sometimes impassable, while also luring travelling train spotters who can't quite believe their luck.
On a single day in April 2016, 11 young members of the Attawapiskat First Nation community in remote northern Ontario attempted suicide, dramatically embodying the dire hopelessness experienced by some of Canada's indigenous people, who faced limited opportunities for education and employment.
The nearby Sandy Bar Band first nation community at Riverton was reached by Lynch and Young, and had been abandoned.
We assessed the live birth sex ratios for the Aamjiwnaang First Nation community in Ontario, Canada, in response to concerns voiced by members of the community regarding the perception of fewer male children in recent years.
For example, in the Mackenzie et al. study (112) of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation community, residents were exposed to more than a dozen pollutants from the nearby petrochemical industry, many in excess of Canadian national guidelines.
A recent study of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation community in Canada reported that sex ratios have dropped from an expected 0.55 0.54 range to 0.45 for the late 1990s, to 0.35 for the 1999 2003 period (Mackenzie et al. 2005).
Constanze Mackenzie, a member of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa, and colleagues report a distinct skewing of the sex ratio within members of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation community near Sarnia, Ontario.
The purpose of this research was to determine the prevalence and determinants of diabetic neuropathy in a Canadian First Nation community that has a significantly greater rate of diabetes-related amputation than that for the general population (9).
There are 139 reserves in Manitoba; reserves are tracts of land whose legal title is held by the Federal Crown and which has been set apart for use and benefit of a particular First Nation community (Statistics Canada census, 2002, Province of Manitoba, 2000).
The Enhancing HPV Vaccination In First Nations Populations in Alberta (EHVINA) project focuses on First Nations, a diverse subset of recognized Indigenous people in Canada, and seeks to increase HPV vaccination among girls and boys living in First Nation communities.
All sites are in First Nation communities or 'reserves' as defined by the Indian Act.
