Popkum | Popkum First Nation
Community Profile
- The Popkum First Nation is a First Nations band government located in southwestern British Columbia, situated in the traditional territory of Coast Salish peoples.
- Last Updated 2025-05-13 06:48:50 UTC
- Name: Popkum First Nation (ISC Code: 585)
- Former Names: Popkum Band
- Band Style: First Nations
- Cultural Area: Coast Salish Territory
- Indigenous Language: Halkomelem
- Number of Registered Members: 13
Governance
Band Council
- GOVERNANCE TYPE: Not Applicable
- TERM EXPIRES: Not Applicable
- CHIEF: JAMES MURPHY
- NUMBER OF COUNCIL MEMBERS:1
- JAMES MURPHY
Contact Information
- BAND WEBSITE: /nations/469-popkum-first-nation
- PHONE NUMBER: (604) 846-1988
- FAX NUMBER: (604) 824-5326
- ADDRESS: 54941 JULSETH ROAD, POPKUM, BC
- EMAILS:
- Chief JAMES MURPHY:
- 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 - Popkum First Nation20112012.pdf
- 2007 - Popkum First Nation20072008.pdf
- 2006 - Popkum First Nation20062007.pdf
- 2005 - Popkum First Nation20052006.pdf
- 2004 - Popkum First Nation20042005.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: 9657
PEKW'XE:YLES (PECKQUAYLIS)
10.3 Hectares
[49.1434849, -122.2745945] -
ISC Code: 8366
POPKUM 2
8.6 Hectares
[49.1837177, -121.7451795] -
ISC Code: 8083
POPKUM 1
141.1 Hectares
YALE DISTRICT, IN TP.3,R.28,W.6M, ON LEFT BANK OF THE FRASER RIVER, 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF BRIDAL FALLS
[49.191622, -121.738538] -
ISC Code: 10235
COQUALEETZA
23.4 Hectares
CHILLIWACK NEW WESTMINSTER DISCTRICT
[nil, nil]
- Traditional Territory Location: Lower Fraser River Valley, southwestern British Columbia
- Key Geographical Features: Fraser River, surrounding mountain ranges
- Traditional Land Use: Fishing, hunting, gathering, seasonal migration routes
- Historical Significance: Part of the broader Coast Salish cultural landscape
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
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- Tiyt Tribe First Nations and Canada strengthen nation-to-nation relationship with signing of Letter of Understanding
- South Mission Integrated Planning Study
- 2024 BC Election: Chilliwack, Hope, and the Eastern Fraser Valley ridings, candidates, and polling info
- Proposed Bridal Veil Resort east of Chilliwack estimates it will open by end of this decade
- Why Fraser River oil spill took nearly 3 months to start cleaning
- Chilliwack gondola project has support from Indigenous groups and local politicians
- ‘Read the story’: Popkum, Rosedale history archive now available online
- (PDF) The Healing Power of Storytelling: Finding Identity Through Narrative
- Taking a Stick to First Nations Secrecy
- Funding will support local volunteer fire departments, keep people safe
- We’ve got new Trans Mountain data and we’re sharing it
- VIDEO: MP Vis advocates for Agassiz pool facility before Parliament
- Firefighter attends citizenship ceremony while on front lines of B.C. wildfire
- Chilliwack man keeps history alive by digitizing book about Popkum, Rosedale
- Former principal organizes a trip through Lower Mainland history, in a Porsche
- Kent council probes possibilites for HandyDART transport
- Canada and seven Fraser Valley First Nations settle historic claim
- BC’s first mobile OPS in a First Nations community opens in Cheam
- Lets’emot Regional Recreation and Aquatic Centre Construction Commencement
- Transforming primary care in Chilliwack, surrounding areas
- Trans Mountain work in Hope could cause noise and odours
Academic Research
Academic Research
- Recognizing the diversity of BC's First Nations languages
- How First Nations Benefit from
- BC First Nations children: Our families, our communities, our future
- Stó: lō Connect: A Case Study in Collaborative First Nation Referral Management
- The power of place, the problem of time: Aboriginal identity and historical consciousness in the cauldron of colonialism
- The anathema of aggregation: Toward 21st-century self-government in the Coast Salish world
- Institutional Change on Canadian First Nation Reserves: Adoption of the Framework Agreement on First Nation Land Management
- “I Can Lift Her Up…”: Fred Ewen's Narrative Complexity.”
- The Governance of the British Columbia Assembly of First Nations: A Strategy for getting out from under the Indian Act
- First Nations community well-being in Canada: The community well-being index (CWB), 2001
- The power of place, the problem of time: Aboriginal identity and historical consciousness in the cauldron of colonialism
- Stó: lō Connect: A Case Study in Collaborative First Nation Referral Management
- 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
- 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
- The power of place, the problem of time: Aboriginal identity and historical consciousness in the cauldron of colonialism
- The poetics of land and identity among British Columbia Indigenous peoples
- First Nations community well-being in Canada: The community well-being index (CWB), 2001
- The power of place, the problem of time: Aboriginal identity and historical consciousness in the cauldron of colonialism
- How First Nations Benefit from
- Institutional Change on Canadian First Nation Reserves: Adoption of the Framework Agreement on First Nation Land Management
- The poetics of land and identity among British Columbia Indigenous peoples
- The power of place, the problem of time: Aboriginal identity and historical consciousness in the cauldron of colonialism
- The poetics of land and identity among British Columbia Indigenous peoples
- The power of place, the problem of time: Aboriginal identity and historical consciousness in the cauldron of colonialism
- The poetics of land and identity among British Columbia Indigenous peoples
- The power of place, the problem of time: Aboriginal identity and historical consciousness in the cauldron of colonialism
- The poetics of land and identity among British Columbia Indigenous peoples
- The power of place, the problem of time: Aboriginal identity and historical consciousness in the cauldron of colonialism
- The poetics of land and identity among British Columbia Indigenous peoples
- The power of place, the problem of time: Aboriginal identity and historical consciousness in the cauldron of colonialism
- The poetics of land and identity among British Columbia Indigenous peoples
- The power of place, the problem of time: Aboriginal identity and historical consciousness in the cauldron of colonialism
- The poetics of land and identity among British Columbia Indigenous peoples
- The power of place, the problem of time: Aboriginal identity and historical consciousness in the cauldron of colonialism
- The poetics of land and identity among British Columbia Indigenous peoples
- 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
- The poetics of land and identity among British Columbia Indigenous peoples
- The poetics of land and identity among British Columbia Indigenous peoples
- The power of place, the problem of time: Aboriginal identity and historical consciousness in the cauldron of colonialism
- The poetics of land and identity among British Columbia Indigenous peoples
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