soo-wah-lee | Soowahlie First Nation
Community Profile
- The Soowahlie First Nation is a First Nations band government located in the Fraser Valley region of British Columbia, Canada. Their traditional territory is situated in the Lower Fraser River watershed.
- Last Updated 2025-05-14 01:28:18 UTC
- Name: Soowahlie (ISC Code: 572)
- Former Names: Soowahlie Indian Band
- Band Style: First Nations
- Cultural Area: Coast Salish
- Indigenous Language: Halq'eméylem
- Number of Registered Members: 469
Governance
Band Council
- GOVERNANCE TYPE: Not Applicable
- TERM EXPIRES: 04/25/2027
- CHIEF: BRENDA WALLACE
- NUMBER OF COUNCIL MEMBERS:5
- BRENDA WALLACE
- DARRELL COMMODORE
- TANYA COMMODORE
- MARCELLA COMMODORE
- DARRYLL JR. COMMODORE
Contact Information
- BAND WEBSITE: http://www.soowahlie.ca/home.html
- PHONE NUMBER: (604) 858-4631
- FAX NUMBER: (604) 824-6751
- ADDRESS: 4393 SOOWAHLIE ROAD, CULTUS LAKE, BC
- EMAILS:
- Chief BRENDA WALLACE:
- Councillor DARRELL COMMODORE:
- Councillor TANYA COMMODORE:
- Councillor MARCELLA COMMODORE:
- Councillor DARRYLL JR. COMMODORE:
- 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
- 2012 - Soowahlie20122013.pdf
- 2011 - Soowahlie20112012.pdf
- 2010 - Soowahlie20102011.pdf
- 2009 - Soowahlie20092010.pdf
- 2008 - Soowahlie20082009.pdf
- 2007 - Soowahlie20072008.pdf
- 2006 - Soowahlie20062007.pdf
- 2005 - Soowahlie20052006.pdf
- 2004 - Soowahlie20042005.pdf
- 2003 - Soowahlie20032004.pdf
- 2002 - Soowahlie20022003.pdf
- 2001 - Soowahlie20012002.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
Lands and Traditional Territory
Reserves
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ISC Code: 9657
PEKW'XE:YLES (PECKQUAYLIS)
10.3 Hectares
[49.1434849, -122.2745945] -
ISC Code: 8051
SOOWAHLIE 14
458.3 Hectares
NEW WESTMINSTER DIST. ON LEFT BANK OF THE CHILLIWACK RIVER, 1 MILE SOUTH OF VEDDER CROSSING
[49.1038704, -121.9625821] -
ISC Code: 8113
GRASS 15
64.8 Hectares
NEW WESTMINSTER DISTRICT, IN SEC 22 TWP 26 E.C.M. 3 1/2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CHILLIWACK
[49.1430391, -121.8925753] -
ISC Code: 10235
COQUALEETZA
23.4 Hectares
CHILLIWACK NEW WESTMINSTER DISCTRICT
[nil, nil]
- Situated in the Lower Fraser Valley region
- Traditional lands include areas around Cultus Lake and surrounding watershed
- Historically occupied lands between modern-day Chilliwack and Abbotsford, British Columbia
- Key traditional resource areas include fishing sites along the Fraser River and surrounding forest lands
Consultations and Referrals
Band Submissions
Consultation Reports
Band Business Interests
Band Owned Corporations
Court Records
Downloadable Court Decisions
Active Court Cases
Media Reports
Media Reports
- Stir Q&A: Virtual Humanity curator Alysha Collie introduces you to Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer stories
- Chilliwack
- Plan to build resort for non-natives on B.C. reserve draws ire of First Nation
- Jo-ann Archibald receives Order of Canada for helping advance Indigenous education in schools
- Locked gate near Cultus Lake needed to keep the peace on Soowahlie road
- How a non-native came to own 29 acres of a reserve
- Cultus Lake Park Board warns public about disturbing incident that targeted a First Nations woman
- First Nations in B.C. receive new basketballs courts to bolster the sport
- 'We're seeing great success': Project brings basketball courts to B.C. Indigenous communities
- 'It goes to Soowahlie first'
- Grand Chief Doug Kelly chaired his last meeting as tribal chief
- Chilliwack First Nations bands reject Kinder Morgan cash
- ‘I don’t think we can convert people with talk’– says Larry Commodore, First Nations passenger on Gaza boat
- Speeding, dumping lead First Nations to close access to some roads
- Soowahlie asks for a halt on housing development near Chilliwack
- Feud developing over prime reserve land in Cultus Lake
- Protest held Sunday to protect Soowahlie land and water
- VIDEO and PHOTOS: Standing in solidarity in Chilliwack for missing, murdered Indigenous women
- Vancouver Bandits, partners bring basketball courts to First Nations in Chilliwack, Abbotsford
- Pro franchise partners to build new basketball courts in First Nations
- Plan to build resort for non-natives on B.C. reserve draws ire of First Nation
- 'Peaceful and powerful': Soowahlie First Nation evicts illegal campers on Chilliwack River
- 'Peaceful and powerful': Soowahlie First Nation evicts illegal campers on Chilliwack River
- Vancouver Bandits and First Nations partner up to build basketball courts
- Consortium of Indigenous chiefs seeking a way to participate in cannabis economy
Academic Research
Academic Research
- Ethnohistory Field School Report 2013
- Ethnohistory Field School Report 2015
- Mapping and Testing Precontact Stó: lō Settlements in the Fraser Canyon and Fraser Valley (2004-2005)
- Using structured decision making to help implement a precautionary approach to endangered species management
- Indigenous writers and Christianity in Canada, the US, and Peru: Select case studies from across the Hemisphere
- Storying Swílcha: Place-making and Power at a Stó: lõ Landmark
- Approaches to Indigenous Community History: Mapping the Cemetery at Soowahlie First Nation
- Indigenous storywork: Educating the heart, mind, body, and spirit
- Letsemot,“Togetherness”: Exploring how connection to land, water, and territory influences health and wellness with First Nations Knowledge Keepers and youth in …
- The power of place, the problem of time: Aboriginal identity and historical consciousness in the cauldron of colonialism
- The power of place, the problem of time: Aboriginal identity and historical consciousness in the cauldron of colonialism
- Indigenous storywork: Educating the heart, mind, body, and spirit
- The power of place, the problem of time: Aboriginal identity and historical consciousness in the cauldron of colonialism
- Indigenous storywork: Educating the heart, mind, body, and spirit
- The power of place, the problem of time: Aboriginal identity and historical consciousness in the cauldron of colonialism
- Indigenous storywork: Educating the heart, mind, body, and spirit
- The power of place, the problem of time: Aboriginal identity and historical consciousness in the cauldron of colonialism
- Indigenous storywork: Educating the heart, mind, body, and spirit
- The power of place, the problem of time: Aboriginal identity and historical consciousness in the cauldron of colonialism
- Indigenous storywork: Educating the heart, mind, body, and spirit
- The power of place, the problem of time: Aboriginal identity and historical consciousness in the cauldron of colonialism
- The power of place, the problem of time: Aboriginal identity and historical consciousness in the cauldron of colonialism
- Indigenous storywork: Educating the heart, mind, body, and spirit
- Indigenous storywork: Educating the heart, mind, body, and spirit
- Indigenous writers and Christianity in Canada, the US, and Peru: Select case studies from across the Hemisphere
- The power of place, the problem of time: Aboriginal identity and historical consciousness in the cauldron of colonialism
- Indigenous storywork: Educating the heart, mind, body, and spirit
- Indigenous Storywork: Educating the Heart, Mind, Body and Spirit
- The power of place, the problem of time: Aboriginal identity and historical consciousness in the cauldron of colonialism
- Indigenous storywork: Educating the heart, mind, body, and spirit
- The power of place, the problem of time: Aboriginal identity and historical consciousness in the cauldron of colonialism
- Indigenous storywork: Educating the heart, mind, body, and spirit
- The power of place, the problem of time: Aboriginal identity and historical consciousness in the cauldron of colonialism
- Indigenous storywork: Educating the heart, mind, body, and spirit
- The power of place, the problem of time: Aboriginal identity and historical consciousness in the cauldron of colonialism
- Indigenous storywork: Educating the heart, mind, body, and spirit
- The power of place, the problem of time: Aboriginal identity and historical consciousness in the cauldron of colonialism
- Indigenous storywork: Educating the heart, mind, body, and spirit
- The power of place, the problem of time: Aboriginal identity and historical consciousness in the cauldron of colonialism
- Indigenous storywork: Educating the heart, mind, body, and spirit
- The power of place, the problem of time: Aboriginal identity and historical consciousness in the cauldron of colonialism
- Indigenous storywork: Educating the heart, mind, body, and spirit
- The power of place, the problem of time: Aboriginal identity and historical consciousness in the cauldron of colonialism
- Indigenous storywork: Educating the heart, mind, body, and spirit
- The power of place, the problem of time: Aboriginal identity and historical consciousness in the cauldron of colonialism
- Indigenous storywork: Educating the heart, mind, body, and spirit
- The power of place, the problem of time: Aboriginal identity and historical consciousness in the cauldron of colonialism
- Indigenous storywork: Educating the heart, mind, body, and spirit
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