Shawanaga’s Lands and Resource Department has been focusing on conservation and restoration projects on the land and water for over a decade. With a strong focus on species at risk and resource management, the SFN team has a large variety of skills and resources to share and collaborate.

The future of water quality, fish health, and sustainable recreational fishing.

Saving rivers isn’t a choice. It’s survival. Our vision is to keep rivers healthy and free while ensuring people have the water they need. We do it by protecting wild rivers, restoring damaged rivers and conserving clean water for people and nature.

I respectfully acknowledge this Sacred Land as Niibing (it is summer) on western shores of Ktichigaming, Anishinaabeg traditional homelands. It is between Animikii-Wiikwedong (Thunder Bay) of Fort William First Nation, and Gichi Onigaming (Portage) of Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.

We as an Ojibway First Nation have come a long way since 1962 when we were established by Ontario Order-in-Council transferred 32 acres at MacDiarmid to the Federal Government to be set apart as a reserve for Rocky Bay. We had a name change to Biinjitiwaabik Zaaging Anishinaabek (BZA) in 2006.