2018 Economic Developer of the Year Award Winners

Authors

  • Sam Laskaris

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54056/CCIZ6292

Keywords:

Automobile dealers, Business, Business And Economics, Children, Courts, Economic development, Ethnic Interests, Hotels & motels, Marijuana, Medical marijuana, Nominations, Private sector, Restaurants, Small business, Ventures, Winners, Indigenous, Indigenous economic development, Indigenous economic leadership, Indigenous businesses in Canada

Abstract

Cando Economic Developer of the Year Award Winner Individual Category Tom Many Heads Siksika Resource Development Ltd., Alberta Since becoming the CEO of the Siksika Resource Development Ltd. (SRDL) in 2010, Tom Many Heads has played an instrumental role with various business ventures on his First Nation. [...]officials with the SRDL are going full steam ahead with their plans to have the Siksika Nation become the first First Nation in Canada to have a medical marijuana production facility on its own land. Several other businesses, including a food court and a Ford car dealership, are located in the centre. Cando Economic Developer of the Year Award Winner Indigenous Private Sector Business Category Yukon Motel & Restaurant Teslin, Yukon A dozen years ago, while working as a conservation officer and trying to raise three young children in addition to being pregnant again, an opportunity arose that drastically changed the work career of Juanita Kremer and that of her husband, Steve, as well.

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Published

2019-01-01

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Lessons From Experience