ko͞o′chĭ-chĭng | Couchiching First Nation
Community Profile
- The Couchiching First Nation is an Anishinaabe community situated in the Treaty 3 territory, known for its strong cultural connections to the land and waters of northwestern Ontario.
- Last Updated 2025-04-20 04:37:08 UTC
- Name: Couchiching First Nation (ISC Code: 126)
- Former Names: Previously known as Fort Frances Band
- Band Style: First Nation
- Cultural Area: Boreal Forest, Lake of the Woods Region
- Indigenous Language: Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe)
- Number of Registered Members: 3078
Governance
Band Council
- GOVERNANCE TYPE: Not Applicable
- TERM EXPIRES: 03/07/2026
- CHIEF: RICHARD BRUYERE
- NUMBER OF COUNCIL MEMBERS:7
- RICHARD BRUYERE
- MARGARET LOYIE
- LUCILLE MORRISSEAU
- SANDY BRUYERE
- DAVID LAWRENCE BRUYERE
- KOURTNEY PERRAULT
- RANDY JONES
Contact Information
- BAND WEBSITE: http://www.couchiching.ca/
- PHONE NUMBER: (807) 274-3228
- FAX NUMBER: (807) 274-6458
- ADDRESS: RR 2 RMB 2027, FORT FRANCES, ON
- EMAILS:
- Chief RICHARD BRUYERE:
- Councillor MARGARET LOYIE:
- Councillor LUCILLE MORRISSEAU:
- Councillor SANDY BRUYERE:
- Councillor DAVID LAWRENCE BRUYERE:
- Councillor KOURTNEY PERRAULT:
- Councillor RANDY JONES:
- General Band Office:
- Media Contact:
- Referrals Contact:
- Websites
Band 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
- 2012 - Couchiching First Nation20122013.pdf
- 2011 - Couchiching First Nation20112012.pdf
- 2010 - Couchiching First Nation20102011.pdf
- 2009 - Couchiching First Nation20092010.pdf
- 2008 - Couchiching First Nation20082009.pdf
- 2007 - Couchiching First Nation20072008.pdf
- 2006 - Couchiching First Nation20062007.pdf
- 2005 - Couchiching First Nation20052006.pdf
- 2004 - Couchiching First Nation20042005.pdf
- 2003 - Couchiching First Nation20032004.pdf
- 2002 - Couchiching First Nation20022003.pdf
- 2001 - Couchiching First Nation20012002.pdf
Band Council Remuneration
- 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
Lands and Traditional Territory
Reserves
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ISC Code: 6336
AGENCY 1
14.0 Hectares
IN/DANS SW/SO OF/DE RAINY LAKE
[48.6231672, -93.3616322] -
ISC Code: 6241
COUCHICHING 16A
6422.5 Hectares
SW/SO SHORE/RIVE OF/DE RAINY LAKE
[48.6776856, -93.44880739999999]
Traditional Territory
- Located around Lake of the Woods region
- Encompasses parts of northwestern Ontario
- Traditional hunting, fishing, and gathering lands
- Watersheds include Rainy River and associated lake systems
Consultations and Referrals
Band Submissions
Consultation Reports
Band Business Interests
Band Owned Corporations
Court Records
Downloadable Court Decisions
- Couchiching First Nation v. Attorney General of Canada
- Couchiching First Nation v. Baum
- Couchiching First Nation v. Canada (Attorney General)
- Couchiching First Nation v. Town of Fort Frances
- Couchiching First Nation v. Canada (Attorney General)
- Couchiching First Nation v. Canada (Attorney General)
- Couchiching First Nation v. Canada (Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development)
- Couchiching First Nation et al. v. The Corporation of the Town of Fort Frances et al.
- Nastiuk v. Couchiching First Nation and Thomas Sinclair
- Adams v Couchiching First Nation
Active Court Cases
Media Reports
Media Reports
- Indigenous lawyer stresses early engagement is key to success of major projects
- Pair charged in northwestern Ont. drug bust
- Healing Historical Trauma
- Canada’s National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
- Native American Attorney and Activist Tara Houska Honored with $100,000 Rose-Walters Prize for Global Environmental Activism
- Final arguments begin in a lawsuit that could award Ontario Indigenous groups billions
- Graphic novel ‘Little Moons’ looks at how MMIWG2S+ affects families
- Digital Leap Forward: High-Speed Internet Connects First Nations in Treaty #3 Territory
- The Wet’suwet’en crisis has exposed deep-seated racism in Canada
- A pipeline is threatening their homeland. Indigenous women are fighting back.
- Thunder Bay's Confederation College, Couchiching First Nation to launch trades school
- Indigenous cast shifts perspective from the male focus in fur trade to women’s power
- Poilievre's First Nations consultation pledge garners mixed reviews, call for 'more substance'
- U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders honoured with Coast Salish name
- First Nations in northern Ontario seek over $100B to honour treaty promise
- Prospective Ontario First Nation cannabis store owner 'super excited' to apply for new licence
- How Anishinaabemowin bridges gaps between organizations and Indigenous communities in northwestern Ontario
- Ontario makes big promises with critical minerals plans but First Nations advocates remain concerned
- Brandi Morin: Violence against Indigenous peoples is still fuelled by colonial greed
- Nigigoonsiminikaaning & Couchiching First Nations and Hamilton Fire Department Enhance Community Safety
- Municipalities grapple with renaming Colonization Roads to further Indigenous reconciliation and awareness
- 'They will save lives': Hamilton donates 2 fire trucks to northwestern Ontario First Nations
- ‘A very painful artifact’: Strap used at residential school moves from family home to archives
- Rethinking the Canada-First Nations relationship
- Contaminated soil to be removed from First Nation land
- Ojibwe Tara Houska Named to TIME’s List of People “Bridging Divides Across America”
- Couchiching First Nation chief lauds child welfare funding ruling
- First Nations man survived assault in Thunder Bay river, says woman who called police
- Friendship Agreement Signed with Fort Frances and Treaty 3 First Nations
- Read the full story and comment on Tbnewswatch.com
- Sex assault rate 10 times higher in Treaty 3 First Nations than national average
- Thousands of sandbags distributed to First Nations on flood watch
- Opposition from First Nations mounts over Métis Nation of Ontario self-government deal
- 2-spirit youth calls out 'stares' for wearing ribbon skirt at AFN assembly
- 'Place where thunderbirds land', billboard reclaims Anishinaabe name
- By affirming racism, the Thunder Bay police report asserts our Indigenous truth
- Northwestern Ontario debates its colonization roads
- Ozhaashko Bines: "Reclaiming my Indigenous identity"
- RBC faces questions on climate, Indigenous rights at annual general meeting
- Indigenous health researcher Melissa Walls receives President's Frontier Award
- New temporary policy allows Indigenous people freer movement across borders
- Couchiching First Nation 'disappointed' with province's cannabis store rules
- Women and Girls: Melanie Montour
- Lac La Croix First Nation in northwestern Ontario reaches 'transformational' land claim settlement
- Indigenous languages recognize gender states not even named in English
- Activists hope amateur sports teams will follow suit in changing racist team names
- Biomedical sciences student supports STEM opportunities in urban Indigenous communities
- ‘Resurgence and brilliance’: How this program is supporting Indigenous fashion
- First Nations Art
- $11 earrings on Temu shock Algonquin beader who says they're her design
- Featured Speakers - Indigenous Research Ethics Institute
- Here's where Remembrance Day ceremonies are taking place in Thunder Bay
- 'A minority within a minority': A peek inside Ottawa's 2-spirit ball
- Meet the candidates in the Kenora-Rainy River riding
- Education Special: Ayaangwaamizin Academy
- Court rules First Nation needn't share settlement cash with victims of discrimination
- Fort Frances to gift fire truck to Couchiching First Nation
- 'Big dreams' for collective of Kahnawake survivors of child welfare system
- Indigenous Awareness Week an opportunity to “open and learn”
- First Nations child kept in care for two years after customary care agreement expired
- Indigenous tribes and major oil company battle over Minnesota oil pipeline
- First Nations reclaim the streets of Toronto
- Johns Hopkins opens American Indian health hub in Duluth
- ‘We need a massive paradigm shift’ | Overdose Rates for Native Americans Up 15%, New CDC Data Shows
- Cleveland baseball team's name change sparks hopes other teams follow suit
- Naming is a good start – but we need to do more for reconciliation
- University unveils Tree Protection Zone art installation with Indigenous artists
- Indigenous education institutes look to train more health care workers
- First Nations march in Toronto to defend inherent, treaty rights
- Professor, Aboriginal committee stand by Lakehead U Dean who quit amid allegations of racism
- They didn't win — but they don't mind: Girls from remote First Nation play in 1st hockey tournament
- Dibaajimowin project providing fibre internet to Treaty #3
- Lakehead holds Indigenous Veterans Day ceremony
- Couchiching First Nation awards major environmental remediation project to SANEXEN
- 'Don't Lose Heart' | Overdoses Rise in Indian Country Amid National Decline in Opioid Deaths
- Fort Frances, Ont., to sign friendship agreement with Agency One First Nations
- Canada and Ontario invest over $14.2 million in five community and Indigenous education broadband infrastructure projects across Northern Ontario
- Couchiching First Nation Awards Major Environmental Remediation Project to SANEXEN
- Lac La Croix First Nation in northwestern Ontario reaches 'transformational' land claim settlement
- Read the full story and comment on Tbnewswatch.com
- Ogichidaa Francis Kavanaugh announces the start of the 2019 Grand Council #3 Spring Assembly
- Tara Houska
- Your Guide to Powwow Country
- Unequal relations with feds behind 'acrimonious' AFN, chief says
- A voice from the forest in the corporate boardroom
- Liberals' Indigenous child welfare bill just about 'politics,' says prof who saw draft
- Anishinaabe lawyer Sara Mainville mentoring and making space for the next generation
- Ford promises to continue strong relationship with First Nations if returned as Ontario premier
- 4 things we can learn from Indigenous wisdom
- Lake research video translated into Ojibway to help promote language as well as science
- Groundbreaking Ceremony Marks Start of Wiidookodaadiwin Healing Lodge Near Fort Frances
- Northwestern Ontario First Nations energy project funding
- Meet Tara Houska, Native American advisor to presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders
- First Nations Art
Academic Research
Academic Research
- The wealth of first nations
- Review of “Canada at a Crossroads: Boundaries, Bridges, and Laissez-Faire Racism in Indigenous-Settler Relations”
- Water insecurity in Ontario first nations: An exploratory study on past interventions and the need for indigenous water governance
- The Misery of Residential School. In Reversing Canada's Genocide of First Nations.
- Aki, Anishinaabek, kaye tahsh crown
- Seven habits of highly effective first nations
- Land-based learning: Building bridges between Indigenous knowledge and Western science
- Driving the gift home
- Research, sovereignty and action: lessons from a first nations-led study on aging in ontario
- Traditional native culture and spirituality: A way of life that governs us
- Mitigating the impacts of the First Nation water crisis in Ontario using Indigenous approaches
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