Band Council

• GOVERNANCE TYPE: Not Applicable
• TERM EXPIRES: Not Applicable
• CHIEF: ANDREW (ANDY) ALEX
• NUMBER OF COUNCIL MEMBERS:1
• ANDREW (ANDY) ALEX

Contact Information

• BAND WEBSITE: http://www.unionbarfirstnations.com
• PHONE NUMBER: (604) 869-9930
• FAX NUMBER: (604) 869-9934
• ADDRESS: 66427 KAWKAWA LAKE RD, HOPE, BC
• EMAILS:
• Chief ANDREW (ANDY) ALEX:
• General Band Office:
• Media Contact:
• Referrals Contact:
• Websites

Band Financial Statements

• 2024 - Audited consolidated financial statements
• 2023 - Audited consolidated financial statements
• 2022 - Audited consolidated financial statements
• 2021 - Audited consolidated financial statements
• 2020 - Audited consolidated financial statements
• 2019 - Audited consolidated financial statements
• 2018 - Audited consolidated financial statements
• 2017 - Audited consolidated financial statements
• 2016 - Audited consolidated financial statements
• 2015 - Audited consolidated financial statements
• 2014 - Audited consolidated financial statements
• 2013 - Audited consolidated financial statements
• 2011 - Union Bar First Nation20112012.pdf
• 2010 - Union Bar First Nation20102011.pdf
• 2009 - Union Bar First Nation20092010.pdf
• 2008 - Union Bar First Nation20082009.pdf
• 2007 - Union Bar First Nation20072008.pdf
• 2006 - Union Bar First Nation20062007.pdf
• 2005 - Union Bar First Nation20052006.pdf
• 2004 - Union Bar First Nation20042005.pdf
• 2003 - Union Bar First Nation20032004.pdf
• 2002 - Union Bar First Nation20022003.pdf
• 2001 - Union Bar First Nation20012002.pdf

Band Council Remuneration

• 2024 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
• 2023 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
• 2022 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
• 2021 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
• 2020 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
• 2019 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
• 2018 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
• 2017 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
• 2016 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
• 2015 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
• 2014 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses
• 2013 - Schedule of Remuneration and Expenses

Laws, Bylaws, and Codes

Intergovernmental Agreements

Band Submissions

Consultation Reports

Band Owned Corporations

Downloadable Court Decisions

• Garner v. Union Bar First Nation

Active Court Cases

Media Reports

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• Indigenous people meet in Troy to raise awareness about violence against them
• Indigenous leaders in the province call for investigation following death of First Nations youth in group home
• The Supreme Court of Canada weighs in on UNDRIP
• Everbridge Critical Event Management Platform Rolled Out in First-of-its-Kind Deployment Among Indigenous Peoples of Canada
• A James Beard Award-Winning Indian Spot Is Union Market’s Latest Score
• Key facts about women’s suffrage around the world, a century after U.S. ratified 19th Amendment
• UBCM Executive: focus on infrastructure, homelessness and climate change
• Government settles land claim for Seabird reserve gaffe
• Opinion: Native Americans still suffer from past subjugation, stereotyping
• First Nations leadership council condemns cruelty in Prince George encampment removal
• Remembering Pearl Harbor at the Oldest Bar in Hawaii, Smith's Union Bar
• Chula Vista celebrates its first-ever Indigenous Peoples Day
• Reports & Publications - UBCIC
• First Nations call for end to B.C. open-net salmon farms
• How the Confederate battle flag became an enduring symbol of racism
• New evidence has emerged Elizabeth Warren claimed American Indian heritage in 1986
• Native American-Owned Banks by State
• Indigenous leaders want Abbotsford police to conduct thorough probe
• 123-Year-Old Union Street Watering Hole Bus Stop Gets a Fancy Upstairs Lounge Called Left Door
• Mi'kmaw lawyer, academic calls on MUN to investigate president over statements on Indigenous heritage
• How the election could change B.C.'s course on reconciliation
• First kosher bar in former Soviet Union serves up cocktails and Torah lessons
• Linden native releases his first country album, ‘Wildhorse’
• Review: Documentary ‘Sugarcane’ is a harrowing, essential watch
• How Mohawk ‘Skywalkers’ Helped Build New York City's Tallest Skyscrapers | HISTORY
• Hope flows from action: Rebuilding with resilient foundations in B.C.'s Fraser Canyon Region
• Sex, Drugs and Mojitos: The Coffee Shop Story
• The Best Pakistani and Indian Restaurants Near Albany | Best of the Capital Region Winners
• B.C. regional chief decries 'fear mongering' over proposed changes to Land Act
• Abolishing the Indian Act means eliminating First Nations’ rights
• The Indian Budget 2024/25
• Federal government announces more than $1B for clean energy projects in N.B.
• 17 Must-Try Indian Restaurants Around D.C.
• BMO sets up advisory council after Indigenous man, granddaughter handcuffed at B.C. branch
• B.C. Conservative candidate under fire for racist remarks about Indigenous people
• B.C. strengthens community preparedness for climate-related disasters
• Grand Chief Ed John charged in B.C. with 4 counts of sex assault dating to 1974
• Fraser River slide has 'huge' impact on First Nation community
• Margaret Pictou LaBillois
• British flag to be soaked in Indigenous blood as part of Dark Mofo art performance in Hobart
• Caldwell First Nation celebrates opening of new gas bar and convenience store
• New Hwy. 69 First Nation gas bar credits Indigenous source with savings
• Opinion: As an Indigenous man, I’ve always known I have to fight or submit. I choose to fight
• Exclusive | Top Cuban Communist Party official with eternal allegiance to Fidel Castro to address NYC Bar Association
• MMIWG national action plan is an inadequate response to the crisis, say Indigenous women's advocates
• Dark Mofo festival in Hobart committed to change after controversy in 2021. How has it followed through?
• Remains of 215 children found at former residential school in Kamloops
• Restaurant openings and closings in the Twin Cities
• Canada Day: Reflect, listen, learn, commit to action
• Law as Advocacy: Bringing an Indigenous Voice to Canadian Law – Brad Regehr (BA 1993)
• Margaret Labillois remembered as a 'quiet leader,' LG says
• Wilmer Nadjiwan, founding member of the Union of Ontario Indians, passes into the Spirit World
• Queensland Police Union president Ian Leavers condemned for comments claiming Path to Treaty legislation would give Indigenous criminals 'free pass'
• Ryerson University pushed to change its name by Indigenous students, student union
• Scottish University closes student union bar due to a lack of demand
• Unresolved: Ruth Nora Cocks
• CEGEP students petition against French Language law, call for Indigenous exemption
• The juxtaposition of Indian and European Union data protection laws
• New Cocktail Bar Takes Over Union Tavern in Poughkeepsie
• Indian techie’s widow attend Trump’s first State of the Union
• MK Ranjitsinh v. Union of India: The Supreme Court's very own Sophie's Choice moment
• The Union Club Hotel, a Laid-Back Boozer in Fitzroy
• China's First U. N. Veto Bars Bangladesh (Published 1972)
• Native America’s influence on American Democracy: the back story
• These are Michigan’s 12 Most Iconic Restaurants
• NYC New Restaurant Openings, January 2024
• South Africa - Reconstruct, Union, Segregation
• Sharon Singh
• Public works crews respond to active rockfall incident in Hope
• BMO sets up advisory council after Indigenous man, granddaughter handcuffed at B.C. branch
• First Nations call for end to B.C. open-net salmon farms
• B.C. First Nations leaders want Fisheries and Oceans science reviews put under the microscope
• NYC Bachelor Pad Features Coffee Bar and India Inspired Interior Design
• First Look at New Bedford’s New National Club Mexican Restaurant
• Why Fraser River oil spill took nearly 3 months to start cleaning
• Indigenous leader Bob Chamberlin seeks federal NDP nomination in B.C. riding
• State Bar Council: Structure and functions
• Hereditary chief Bill Wilson, father of former cabinet minister Jody Wilson-Raybould, dead
• TNRD, High Bar First Nation Sign Memorandum of Understanding
• Churchill: Is Joseph Bruchac truly Abenaki?
• Bar on Indigenous consultation keeps rising
• Native Americans celebrate sense of community during Indigenous Peoples Day
• Indigenous Peoples
• Newly appointed Superior Court judge brings history of service to her Native American community to the bench
• High Bar First Nation, TNRD sign MOU
• More Than Just A Bar: Performers, Patrons Reflect On The Union
• First Nations call for end to B.C. open-net salmon farms
• Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women
• Kreayshawn Interview: Kreayshawn + Neon Indian at Union Bar 10/24
• B.C.'s Grand Chief Stewart Phillip won't attend royal ceremony with Prince William
• A young Siksika woman races in the competitive Indian Relay, in documentary at San Diego Film Festival
• Warning issued to First Nations about talent search
• Confederate battle flag: Separating the myths from facts
• ’Thank you for your donation’
• ‘Be respectful allies, not saviours’ – Dr Pam Palmater on reconciliation
• B.C. Indigenous leaders plan to speak about Trans Mountain pipeline at Kinder Morgan AGM
• EU Artificial Intelligence Act: Comparing India’s approach with principles embedded in first of its kind EU legislation
• As Shekuba Declares Himself President Traditional Healers Union Supports President Kabba
• Grand chief slams Rustad's stance on Indigenous rights and title
• Government settles land claim for Seabird reserve gaffe
• Legal group backs US review of Indigenous boarding schools
• 2024 Law Society Awards: Recognizing Excellence
• Death of First Nations youth in B.C. group home sparks calls for an investigation
• Historical Timeline
• Remains of 215 children found at former Kamloops residential school: First Nation
• Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs applies to intervene in case against VPD for handcuffing Indigenous pair
• Women's Suffrage
• New Hwy. 69 First Nation gas bar credits Indigenous source with savings
• Banning TikTok is Unconstitutional. The Supreme Court Must Step In.
• Longmont And Northern Arapaho Tribe Form A First-Of-Its-Kind Sister City Union
• Indigenous gamers advocate for representation and education
• First Nations leader reconsidering stance on Northern Gateway pipeline after Trump’s tariff threats
• Outdoor food hall Water Park debuts in Arlington
• Vintage photos: Do you remember these classic restaurants of Jacksonville's past?
• Open Letter to Prime Minister Harper: In Bad Faith Justice at Last and Canada's Failure to Resolve Specific Claims Read more: Open Letter to Prime Minister Harper: In Bad Faith Justice at Last and Canada's Failure to Resolve Specific Claims
• Caldwell First Nation celebrates opening of new gas bar and convenience store
• Events: 2019 Powwow Season in Atlantic Canada
• Union bourbon bar honored by city for national recognition
• Smith's Union Bar: Hawaii's Oldest Bar With A Fascinating History
• Federal government distributes first of 322 dormant commercial fishing licences to Maritime First Nations
• Bargara Football Club embraces culture with First Nations name change to Mee'barr and Bar'aggi
• NI university offers 'cheapest Student Union pint' in the UK
• Stand.earth welcomes new tripartite Nature Agreement, which will support First Nations-led conservation
• B.C. First Nations leaders thank John Horgan for leadership on premier’s last full day
• Court bars DOGE officials from altering Treasury payment records
• Indian Restaurant Bombay Brasserie, With Locations In London and Dubai, Set to Open In SF's Union Square
• We’ve got new Trans Mountain data and we’re sharing it
• Queensland Police First Nations adviser calls for union boss Ian Leavers to resign over 'racialised, divisive comments'
• First Nations call for end to B.C. open-net salmon farms
• Remains of 215 children found at former B.C. residential school an ‘unthinkable loss’
• Union launched for Indigenous people in 'discriminatory' work-for-the-dole scheme
• Union Square's Taj Campton Place steps up the Bay Area's modern Indian renaissance.
• High Bar First Nation hosts first Aboriginal Day
• Canada and seven Fraser Valley First Nations settle historic claim
• Chinatown’s Karizma Serves Inventive Indian Dishes — And More October Openings in D.C.
• Cree lawyer Brad Regehr becomes 1st Indigenous president of Canadian Bar Association
• Fisheries officers refusing duties because of violence on N.S. waters, union says
• Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs says Trump immigration policies violate UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
• Unresolved: Emma Dixon
• Newmont’s Musselwhite Mine celebrates 25 Years of First Nations agreement
• Canada - Federation, Provinces, Territories
• Tsilhqot'in First Nation granted B.C. title claim in Supreme Court ruling
• Law Society meets with Grand Council Chief Madahbee to discuss Anishinabek perspectives on access to justice
• Groundbreaking ceremony heralds 56-bed supportive housing project in Hope
• First Nations call for end to B.C. open-net salmon farms
• Trump's threats put controversial B.C. pipeline back in the political spotlight
• UN: Canada faces crisis over indigenous issues
• Indigenous energy bar takes off in U.S., soon to hit Canada
• Newly appointed justice from Dokis First Nation
• The Indigenous Student Union reclaims the narrative
• Bannock makers compete for dough, bragging rights
• First Nations call for end to B.C. open-net salmon farms
• Union of BC Indian Chiefs want more federal action on fish farm closure
• First Nations couple wed in cultural union ceremony, hope to revive lost tradition
• Groundbreaking ceremony heralds 56-bed supportive housing project in Hope
• Four Indigenous led projects receive funding to mitigate climate-related disasters
• How Mohawk ‘Skywalkers’ Helped Build New York City’s Tallest Skyscrapers
• National Unity Day celebrated on birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
• Indigenous Bar Association applauds Alberta court ruling on advance costs for treaty rights case
• Canadian customs officers could soon be based in the U.S. for the first time
• B.C. gender justice groups call for repeal of changes to Name Act
• Unfurling the history of our Canadian flag
• UBCIC Research
• Barristers split over Yoorrook ‘cultural awareness’
• After Bar Council’s objection, lawyers’ protests, Centre withdraws contentious amendments to Advocates Act
• Moments in Canadian History of Black Labour
• Groundbreaking ceremony heralds 56-bed supportive housing project in Hope
• New Bedford's National Club Bar Downtown Will Soon Be a Memory
• New Bedford's National Club Bar Downtown Will Soon Be a Memory
• Government settles land claim for Seabird reserve gaffe
• Government settles land claim for Seabird reserve gaffe
• First Nations asked to reach 'high bar' of consensus before old-growth logging deferred on shared lands
• B.C. First Nations leader reverses stance on pipeline as Trump tariff threat looms
• High Bar First Nation, TNRD sign MOU
• Transforming primary care in Chilliwack, surrounding areas
• First Nations asked to reach 'high bar' of consensus before old-growth logging deferred on shared lands
• B.C. First Nations leader reverses stance on pipeline as Trump tariff threat looms
• High Bar First Nation, TNRD sign MOU
• Transforming primary care in Chilliwack, surrounding areas
• Legal warriors: Profiles of 5 indigenous lawyers
• Chawathil First Nation and Kanaka Bar Indian Band receive $80,000 each for food security projects
• Union Maritime Goes Big on Wind and Plans to Invest in BAR Technologies
• Union Maritime Goes Big on Wind and Plans to Invest in BAR Technologies
• Best of the Capital Region 2024
• Best of the Capital Region 2024
• Memorial Day in Indian Country
• HAPHAZARD HISTORY: Fraser River bar settlements key to some of B.C.’s gold rush history
• HAPHAZARD HISTORY: Fraser River bar settlements key to some of B.C.’s gold rush history
• UN declaration is focus of government, First Nations meetings in B.C., says grand chief
• Prince William gets lesson in colonialism, cultural genocide at Black Rod ceremony
• Election 2025 LIVE
• Why I refused to acknowledge the traditional owners at the Vic Bar Council
• Queensland parliamentary committee gives green light to LNP's 'adult crime, adult time' youth justice policy
• Bank union calls nationwide strike on March 24-25: Check details here
• India's Steel Production: A Global Leader in Iron & Steel Industry Growth
• UNION AT 50: 50 years of Tanganyika, Z’bar philosophy
• “If hereafter things go wrong, we will have nobody to blame”, Dr. Ambedkar’s final speech in Constituent Assembly
• UN declaration is focus of government, First Nations meetings in B.C., says grand chief
• Prince William gets lesson in colonialism, cultural genocide at Black Rod ceremony
• Election 2025 LIVE
• Why I refused to acknowledge the traditional owners at the Vic Bar Council
• Queensland parliamentary committee gives green light to LNP's 'adult crime, adult time' youth justice policy
• Bank union calls nationwide strike on March 24-25: Check details here
• India's Steel Production: A Global Leader in Iron & Steel Industry Growth
• UNION AT 50: 50 years of Tanganyika, Z’bar philosophy
• “If hereafter things go wrong, we will have nobody to blame”, Dr. Ambedkar’s final speech in Constituent Assembly
• 'I do not support resuscitating dead projects': B.C. First Nation leader clarifies Northern Gateway comment
• B.C., Alta. Indigenous leaders call on federal government to kill Teck Frontier mine project
• The Supreme Court of Canada weighs in on UNDRIP

Academic Research

• Canadian—West Indian Union, 1884–1885
• An “Entirely Different” Kind of Union: The Service, Office, and Retail Workers' Union of Canada (SORWUC), 1972–1986
• Farmers, foodies and First Nations: getting to food sovereignty in Canada
• First nations? Second thoughts
• Indigenous Workers and Unions
• Assembling Unity: Indigenous Politics, Gender, and the Union of BC Indian Chiefs
• First Nations and the Constitution: A question of trust
• " Unions Aren't Native": The Muckamuck Restaurant Labour Dispute, Vancouver, BC (1978-1983)
• The first nations of British Columbia: an anthropological survey
• The demise and rise of the classical paradigm in Canadian federalism: promoting autonomy for the provinces and First Nations
• The first nations of British Columbia: an anthropological survey
• First nations? Second thoughts
• Assembling Unity: Indigenous Politics, Gender, and the Union of BC Indian Chiefs
• The first nations of British Columbia: an anthropological survey
• Braiding legal orders: implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
• First nations? Second thoughts
• The first nations of British Columbia: an anthropological survey
• Braiding legal orders: implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
• First nations? Second thoughts
• Assembling Unity: Indigenous Politics, Gender, and the Union of BC Indian Chiefs
• The first nations of British Columbia: an anthropological survey
• First nations? Second thoughts
• Assembling Unity: Indigenous Politics, Gender, and the Union of BC Indian Chiefs
• NIL/TU, O and Native Child v BC Government and Service Employees' Union and Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada
• Beyond blood: Rethinking indigenous identity
• The first nations of British Columbia: an anthropological survey
• First nations? Second thoughts
• Assembling Unity: Indigenous Politics, Gender, and the Union of BC Indian Chiefs
• Beyond blood: Rethinking indigenous identity
• The first nations of British Columbia: an anthropological survey
• First nations? Second thoughts
• Report on the evolution of British Columbia's heritage environment: an overview and discussion of First Nations issues; submitted to: Union of BC Indian …
• Assembling Unity: Indigenous Politics, Gender, and the Union of BC Indian Chiefs
• The first nations of British Columbia: an anthropological survey
• Canadian—West Indian Union, 1884–1885
• First nations? Second thoughts
• Assembling Unity: Indigenous Politics, Gender, and the Union of BC Indian Chiefs
• Beyond blood: Rethinking indigenous identity
• How First Nations Benefit from
• The first nations of British Columbia: an anthropological survey
• First nations? Second thoughts
• Assembling Unity: Indigenous Politics, Gender, and the Union of BC Indian Chiefs
• The first nations of British Columbia: an anthropological survey
• First nations? Second thoughts
• Assembling Unity: Indigenous Politics, Gender, and the Union of BC Indian Chiefs
• Beyond blood: Rethinking indigenous identity
• The first nations of British Columbia: an anthropological survey
• First nations? Second thoughts
• Assembling Unity: Indigenous Politics, Gender, and the Union of BC Indian Chiefs
• Beyond blood: Rethinking indigenous identity
• Factum of the Intervener, the Assembly of First Nations
• The first nations of British Columbia: an anthropological survey
• First nations? Second thoughts
• Assembling Unity: Indigenous Politics, Gender, and the Union of BC Indian Chiefs
• Beyond blood: Rethinking indigenous identity
• Labour unions and First Nations casinos: An uneasy relationship
• Confederation and Maritime First Nations
• A border without guards: First nations and the enforcement of national space
• The first nations of British Columbia: an anthropological survey
• First nations? Second thoughts
• The first nations of British Columbia: an anthropological survey
• First nations? Second thoughts
• The first nations of British Columbia: an anthropological survey
• First nations? Second thoughts
• The first nations of British Columbia: an anthropological survey
• First nations? Second thoughts
• The first nations of British Columbia: an anthropological survey
• First nations? Second thoughts
• The first nations of British Columbia: an anthropological survey
• First nations? Second thoughts
• Assembling Unity: Indigenous Politics, Gender, and the Union of BC Indian Chiefs