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Sandy Lake First Nation
P.O. Box 12
SANDY LAKE, ON
POV 1VO		 Chief Adam Fiddler
Ph: (807) 774-3421/5121
Fax: (807) 774-1040
adamfiddler@knet.ca
On-Reserve Population:  1 307 (INAC, 1991)
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Land Base: 4 266 ha

Languages
Linguistic Affiliation: Algonkian (Cree)
Mother Tongue: Information not available

Affiliations
TC: None
PTO:Nishnawbe-Aski Nation

Electoral Ridings
(F) Kenora - Rainy River
(P) Kenora
 
Historical Notes

In June of 1910 at Deer Lake East, the Deer Lake Band (ancestors of Sandy Lake First Nation people) signed an adhesion to the Winnipeg Treaty of 1875 - Treaty No. 5. At that time the Band consisted of 95 member who were widely scattered throughout a 120-160 km radius around Deer Lake, and, as of 1911, 78 members of the Island Lake Band in Manitoba who transferred to the Deer Lake Band. By 1930 when the Adhesion to the James Bay Treaty of 1905 - Treaty No. 9 was being signed, government commissioners noted that 332 members of the Deer Lake Band had moved to their present location of Sandy Lake.

Under Treaty No. 9, by and Order-in-Council dated June 18, 1932, the Deer Lake Band was allocated its present reserve at Sandy Lake. In 1985 the Deer Lake Band at Sandy Lake formally changed its name to the Sandy Lake Band.
 
 

Industries

Trapping, fishing and forestry are principal occupations. Local industries include: The Bay store, two general stores, garage and gas bar, and freight hauling business.

 
 

Educational Facilities

Elementary

  • Thomas Fiddler Memorial School, K-8 (First Nation operated)

Secondary

  • Thomas Fiddler Memorial School, grades 9-10 (First Nation operated)
  • grades 11-12 students board in Sioux Lookout
 
 

Community Services and Facilities

  • fire hall with some firefighting equipment
  • one Anglican, one Roman Catholic, one Mennonite, one Pentecostal and one United church
  • community hall
  • nursing station with several resident nurses
  • access to Sioux Lookout Zone Hospital by air ambulance; hospital services also available in Red Lake
  • Child and Family Services worker provided through Tikinagan Child and Family Services in Sioux Lookout
  • Alternative Justice Project (councils of elders participated in sentencing and in administration of traditional justice measures)
  • Ontario First Nations Policing Arrangements - three constables
  • O.P.P. Red Lake Detachment
  • Northern Air Patrol from Sioux Lookout
 
 

Communications

  • telephone - Bell Canada (full service)
  • radio - CBC, Wawatay Network, local radio station
  • newspapers - Wawatay News, one monthly from Sioux Lookout
  • television - CBC, TV Ontario, Wawatay Network, satellite dish
 
 

Utilities

  • water - nursing station and school have their own separate water system
  • sewage - septic lagoon for nursing station and school only
  • other waste - landfill site on reserve
  • energy/electricity - Ontario Hydro
 
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