Band Council

• GOVERNANCE TYPE: Not Applicable
• TERM EXPIRES: 06/26/2025
• CHIEF: RICHARD LUCAS ALLEN
• NUMBER OF COUNCIL MEMBERS:7
• RICHARD LUCAS ALLEN
• SAMANTHA CHARLENE JOHN GEORGE
• NORMAN SAMSON SOLOMON
• JO ANNE JANE BIRD
• ROGER HUGHIE WESLEY
• CHRISTINE FRANCIS STEPHEN
• RICKY JAMES SUTHERLAND

Contact Information

• BAND WEBSITE: http://www.clfn.on.ca
• PHONE NUMBER: (705) 463-4511
• FAX NUMBER: (705) 463-2222
• ADDRESS: P.O. Box 4000, CONSTANCE LAKE, ON
• EMAILS:
• Chief RICHARD LUCAS ALLEN:
• Councillor SAMANTHA CHARLENE JOHN GEORGE:
• Councillor NORMAN SAMSON SOLOMON:
• Councillor JO ANNE JANE BIRD:
• Councillor ROGER HUGHIE WESLEY:
• Councillor CHRISTINE FRANCIS STEPHEN:
• Councillor RICKY JAMES SUTHERLAND:
• 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
• 2011 - Constance Lake20112012.pdf
• 2010 - Constance Lake20102011.pdf
• 2009 - Constance Lake20092010.pdf
• 2008 - Constance Lake20082009.pdf
• 2007 - Constance Lake20072008.pdf
• 2006 - Constance Lake20062007.pdf
• 2005 - Constance Lake20052006.pdf
• 2004 - Constance Lake20042005.pdf
• 2003 - Constance Lake20032004.pdf
• 2002 - Constance Lake20022003.pdf
• 2001 - Constance Lake20012002.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

Band Submissions

Consultation Reports

Band Owned Corporations

Downloadable Court Decisions

• CAS v. K. C. and Constance Lake First Nation
• Penn-Co Construction Canada (2003) Ltd. v. Constance Lake First Nation
• Penn-Co Construction Canada (2003) Ltd. v. Constance Lake First Nation
• Penn-Co Construction et. al. v. Constance Lake First Nation et. al.
• CAS Hamilton v L.K. and J.S. and Constance Lake First Nation
• Penn-Co Construction Canada (2003) Ltd. v. Constance Lake First Nation

Active Court Cases

Media Reports

• Ontario Partnering with Indigenous Communities to Advance Economic Development
• The disappearing children of Constance Lake and the woman trying to find them
• Feds give up control of Indigenous-led conservation initiatives
• Constance Lake First Nation Achieves Landmark Detection of Blastomyces Fungus
• First Nations teens hit the ice with Oakville teens through exchange program
• Smithsonian boreal forest exhibition launches national tour at MSU Museum
• First Nations couple climbs to Mount Everest Base Camp
• Hockey Cares program connecting Indigenous and non-Indigenous youth to hockey and life skills
• $50K reward offered for missing Indigenous man from up north
• 'It's now too late': How invasive species have altered Lake Constance
• The non-native quagga mussel is spreading in Switzerland and impacting lake ecosystems
• Father of missing Thunder Bay man has been searching the northern Ontario bush for 50 straight days
• People's homes not source of Constance Lake blastomycosis outbreak, say investigators
• Inforegio - Lake Constance ecosystem threats and resource use investigated
• Lung infection forces Constance Lake to declare state of emergency
• Constance Lake First Nation in state of emergency for over a year due to blastomycosis
• Constance Lake First Nation youth co-ordinator speaks about her work — and why belonging matters
• Choose Life supports youth in northern First Nations
• As mining fight escalates, First Nations challenge Ontario’s power
• International team assessing Matawa languages program
• AFN National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak and Veteran Percy Joe Honour First Nations Veterans and Peacekeepers on National Indigenous Veterans Day
• The disappearing children of Constance Lake: Kerri-Lynn Bunting
• Without First Nations’ consent mining critical minerals is cultural genocide, leader tells Ontario, Canada
• 3 dead after suspected blastomycosis outbreak in Constance Lake First Nation
• Young Indigenous woman hopes her experience as a model will inspire others
• First Nations sue over Treaty 9, raising questions on Ring of Fire
• Lawyer says First Nations will fight Ontario government's proposed mining changes
• Trudeau won’t be able to keep his promise on clean water for First Nations, human rights groups warn
• 'They rediscover themselves'— northern Ontario First Nations turn to land-based addiction treatment
• Treaty 9 Nations press ahead with lawsuit on Far North mine development
• Former addict says methadone a 'bad drug'
• Northern Ont. First Nation under boil water advisory gets water treatment plant
• Constance Lake First Nation looks to enhance workforce
• RBC Future Launch Scholarship for Indigenous Youth
• Fort Albany First Nation embarks on journey to uncover truth behind St. Anne's Indian Residential School
• Indigenous suicides getting worse, not better
• New grants advance Matawa First Nations' fibre-optic project
• ‘Get off the bulldozer’ and come to the table, Matawa chief tells Premier Ford
• Constance Lake’s Marcia Chum to launch tiny home music tour
• Ontario Helping Indigenous People in Thunder Bay Train as Carpenters
• Walk the walk: Sudburian featured at Indigenous fashion show
• Ontario offers alternate municipal oath of office for Indigenous people
• A First Nations cry for help gets little government attention: Star investigation
• Exclusive: Third-world conditions taking a high toll on First Nations police force
• Matawa First Nations seeking $25M to reopen its schools
• The Marxist-Leninist Daily
• CIB and RBC commit $20 million towards the environmentally sustainable revitalization of the Matawa Training and Wellness Centre
• Artists adorn North Bay, Ont., hospital fence with bears and strawberries
• Meet Bentley Cheechoo, a Treaty 9 Knowledge Keeper
• 'Broken, upset, frustrated': Families of missing man, woman plead for answers
• Feeding Ecology of Invasive Three-Spined Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) in Relation to Native Juvenile Eurasian Perch (Perca fluviatilis) in the Pelagic Zone of Upper Lake Constance
• ‘It’s been hard having no closure’: Family of missing Barrie Indigenous woman pleads for clues in her disappearance
• Constance Lake First Nation confirms 12 cases of blastomycosis, more than 100 under investigation
• Family of missing Thunder Bay man begin grid searches along Highway 11 in northern Ontario
• Constance Lake getting help from feds with blastomycosis outbreak
• Opioid Crisis: How two land-based programs are helping people heal
• Northern Ontario hosts the biggest conservation project in Canada
• Surprise return of 55-year-old tikinagan sign of hope, renewal for Cree man
• First Nations forest management company among organizations sharing in $5.7M
• Opinion | To end boil water advisories in First Nations, invest in people
• Videos: Indigenous voices on treaties
• Rangers celebrate Camp Loon return
• ‘We never surrendered our rights’: Treaty 9 Nations launching $95B lawsuit against Canada, Ontario
• Treaty 9 First Nations To File Claim Against Canada and Ontario Seeking Co-Jurisdiction Over Treaty 9 Lands
• Exposure to fungus that caused Constance Lake outbreak likely not recent, says doctor
• Matawa chiefs say they won’t be ignored in the Ring of Fire
• ‘Are we a top priority?’: How Indigenous communities are bracing for coronavirus
• Indigenous voices: 'We’re all connected,' says Patrick Cheechoo
• ‘Milestone’ deal reached with 15 First Nations on Ring of Fire mining development
• Constance Lake First Nation dealing with deadly blastomycosis outbreak
• Suzan Sandau - Obituary - Thunder Bay
• Feds sign deal with First Nations for Ontario's Ring of Fire mining-related assessments
• A culture shift in academia
• Families of Dean Mattinas and Autumn Shaganash appeal for help locating their loved ones
• Long-distance education program seeing success in Constance Lake
• Smithsonian boreal forest exhibition launches national tour at MSU Museum
• Funding aims to help Indigenous communities manage energy costs
• Warming weather renews fears of fungal lung disease blastomycosis in Constance Lake
• CIB, RBC fund retrofits to Matawa community centre
• NWO man reunites with the tikanagan he slept in as a baby
• Ottawa finally rolls out its Ring of Fire assessment plan
• CIB and RBC commit $20 million towards the environmentally sustainable revitalization of the Matawa Training and Wellness Centre
• Your Guide to Powwow Country
• Low pay for First Nations water operators is threatening drinking water
• Ring of Fire development under the microscope
• St. Clair College embraces Indigenous education protocol
• Matawa Education and Care Centre celebrates the opening of its new facility
• Constant Lake First Nation school responds to student arrest and subsequent protest
• Constance Lake First Nation to hold first animal wellness clinic in at least 10 years
• Electricity Agreement to Provide Economic Benefits for Constance Lake First Nation
• 10 new confirmed cases of blastomycosis in Constance Lake
• Couple from northwestern Ontario wave their First Nations' flags at Mount Everest's base camp
• Ottawa finally rolls out its Ring of Fire assessment plan
• 'Big, bold and boreal'
• Canada‘s largest EVER private conservation project
• Mobile anti-human trafficking team to start in January
• Land-based detox healing program reconnects people to their culture, identity
• Camp Loon 2021 Cancelled Because of COVID-19
• Group helping youth in remote First Nations hopes to keep connection alive through COVID-19
• Empowered Indigenous singers captivate college convocation audience
• National Forest Week Conference: Indigenous Peoples and the Forest Sector
• Matawa First Nations chiefs drop Ring of Fire legal challenge
• Mentorship program at Lakehead a positive experience
• First Nations face overlapping crises and inadequate support during pandemic
• Federal rollout of COVID-19 vaccine pitting First Nations against each other in northern Ontario
• New tourism destination opens near Hearst
• Anishinabek Nation members weigh in on Poppy Protocols
• 'Broken, upset, frustrated': Families of missing man, woman plead for answers - Innisfil News
• Bob Rae to lead First Nations in Ring of Fire negotiations
• Matawa First Nations communities training carpenters
• Drugs and Firearm Seized in Constance Lake First Nation: Three Arrested
• Decolonizing the classroom is more than just a checklist - News and Events
• First Nation community of 900 in northern Ontario without clean water
• Missanabie Cree First Nation suing for increase in annuities payments for Treaty 9 members
• Trail cameras gathering insight into threatened woodland caribou
• Sioux Lookout protest sparked by Indigenous teen’s arrest seeks to draw mistreatment of First Nations to the fore
• Junior Canadian Rangers Camp Loon 2022 a Success
• Junior miner and Constance Lake First Nation ink exploration agreement
• Nominees for Nishnawbe Aski Nation grand chief, deputy grand chief elections set
• Northern Ontario First Nation to receive benefit payments 20 years after hydro plant started generating
• McDonald’s festive coffee cups feature Indigenous symbolism
• Inspire: Success means seizing opportunities, says Hailey Sutherland
• First Nations plan to evict mining 'intruders'
• First Nations face overlapping crises and inadequate support during pandemic
• Global warming may lower thermal barriers against invasive species in freshwater ecosystems – A study from Lake Constance
• Constance Lake First Nation chief confirms 2 deaths due to blastomycosis
• No signs of ongoing blastomycosis exposure in Constance Lake: chief
• Matawa language program needs stable funding, CEO says
• New CEO on the job at Matawa First Nations Management
• Alvin Fiddler Re-Elected at NAN Grand Chief
• Second child in Constance Lake First Nation dies
• Matawa secures $20M for green retrofit of Thunder Bay centre
• Nishnawbe Aski Nation on board with Far North Act repeal
• Two teachers charged in separate sex abuse cases in Webequie First Nation
• Matawa First Nations CEO honoured with King’s Coronation Medal
• Canadian Ranger Honoured by Governor General

Academic Research

• Addressing Indigenous community concerns of lake health by assessing water quality in Constance Lake, ON and biomarker responses in freshwater mussels …
• Gammarids in Lake Constance: habitat segregation between the invasive Dikerogammarus villosus and the indigenous Gammarus roeselii
• Women are Discriminated Against within Politics in Indigenous Communities Because of their Gender
• Thinking through the Canadian museum for human rights
• Chief and Council
• Coexisting native and non-indigenous gammarideans in Lake Constance–Comparative morphology of mouthparts
• Is the Water leaving? World-Making in the Settler-Colonial Context at Lake Abitibi, Québec, Unceded Abitibiwinni Aki (Anicinape Territory)
• Leveraging solar photovoltaic technology for sustainable development in Ontario's Aboriginal communities
• Standing up with Ga'axsta'las: Jane Constance Cook and the politics of memory, church, and custom
• " It was your ancestors that put them there and they put them there for you": exploring Indigenous connection to mazinaabikiniganan as land-based education
• Standing up with Ga'axsta'las: Jane Constance Cook and the politics of memory, church, and custom
• Standing up with Ga'axsta'las: Jane Constance Cook and the politics of memory, church, and custom
• Standing up with Ga'axsta'las: Jane Constance Cook and the politics of memory, church, and custom
• Standing up with Ga'axsta'las: Jane Constance Cook and the politics of memory, church, and custom
• Standing up with Ga'axsta'las: Jane Constance Cook and the politics of memory, church, and custom
• Urban and rural homelessness in Northern Ontario: an Indigenous lens
• Standing up with Ga'axsta'las: Jane Constance Cook and the politics of memory, church, and custom
• Standing up with Ga'axsta'las: Jane Constance Cook and the politics of memory, church, and custom
• Standing up with Ga'axsta'las: Jane Constance Cook and the politics of memory, church, and custom
• Constance Backhouse, Cynthia E. Milton, Margaret Kovach, and Adele Perry, eds. Royally Wronged: The Royal Society of Canada and Indigenous Peoples
• Standing up with Ga'axsta'las: Jane Constance Cook and the politics of memory, church, and custom
• Standing up with Ga'axsta'las: Jane Constance Cook and the politics of memory, church, and custom
• Standing up with Ga'axsta'las: Jane Constance Cook and the politics of memory, church, and custom
• Standing up with Ga'axsta'las: Jane Constance Cook and the politics of memory, church, and custom
• Standing up with Ga'axsta'las: Jane Constance Cook and the politics of memory, church, and custom
• " It was your ancestors that put them there and they put them there for you": exploring Indigenous connection to mazinaabikiniganan as land-based education
• Standing up with Ga'axsta'las: Jane Constance Cook and the politics of memory, church, and custom
• Standing up with Ga'axsta'las: Jane Constance Cook and the politics of memory, church, and custom
• Is the Water leaving? World-Making in the Settler-Colonial Context at Lake Abitibi, Québec, Unceded Abitibiwinni Aki (Anicinape Territory)