La Na-syon In-nu Ma-ti-me-kush-Lac Jon | La Nation Innu Matimekush-Lac John
Community Profile
- An Innu First Nation located in northeastern Quebec, centered in the Schefferville region, with deep historical roots in the Labrador-Quebec border area.
- Last Updated 2025-05-19 11:41:00 UTC
- Name: La Nation Innu Matimekush-Lac John (ISC Code: 87)
- Former Names: Matimekush Band, Lac John Band
- Band Style: First Nation
- Cultural Area: Northeastern Quebec/Labrador
- Indigenous Language: Innu-aimun
- Number of Registered Members: 1086
Governance
Band Council
- GOVERNANCE TYPE: Not Applicable
- TERM EXPIRES: 07/07/2025
- CHIEF: RÉAL MCKENZIE
- NUMBER OF COUNCIL MEMBERS:5
- RÉAL MCKENZIE
- PIER-LUC ANDRÉ
- DAN-GEORGE GABRIEL
- NATHALIE TSHUTSHET GABRIEL
- DIDIER GRÉGOIRE
Contact Information
- BAND WEBSITE: /nations/71-la-nation-innu-matimekush-lac-john
- PHONE NUMBER: (418) 585-2601
- FAX NUMBER: (418) 585-3856
- ADDRESS: 170, rue Pearce Lake, Schefferville, QC
- EMAILS:
- Chief RÉAL MCKENZIE:
- Councillor PIER-LUC ANDRÉ:
- Councillor DAN-GEORGE GABRIEL:
- Councillor NATHALIE TSHUTSHET GABRIEL:
- Councillor DIDIER GRÉGOIRE:
- 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 - La Nation Innu Matimekush-Lac John20122013.pdf
- 2011 - La Nation Innu Matimekush-Lac John20112012.pdf
- 2010 - La Nation Innu Matimekush-Lac John20102011.pdf
- 2009 - La Nation Innu Matimekush-Lac John20092010.pdf
- 2008 - La Nation Innu Matimekush-Lac John20082009.pdf
- 2007 - La Nation Innu Matimekush-Lac John20072008.pdf
- 2006 - La Nation Innu Matimekush-Lac John20062007.pdf
- 2005 - La Nation Innu Matimekush-Lac John20052006.pdf
- 2004 - La Nation Innu Matimekush-Lac John20042005.pdf
- 2003 - La Nation Innu Matimekush-Lac John20032004.pdf
- 2002 - La Nation Innu Matimekush-Lac John20022003.pdf
- 2001 - La Nation Innu Matimekush-Lac John20012002.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: 6138
LAC JOHN
23.5 Hectares
2 KM E/E OF/DE SCHEFFERVILLE
[54.81052769999999, -66.78397040000002] -
ISC Code: 6136
MATIMEKOSH 3
65.4 Hectares
510 KM AU NORD DE SEPT-ILES
[50.21329679999999, -66.3757921]
Traditional Innu Territory
- Covers regions of northeastern Quebec and western Labrador
- Includes watersheds of the St. Lawrence River and Churchill River systems
- Historically important hunting and gathering lands
- Encompasses parts of modern Schefferville and surrounding regions
Consultations and Referrals
Band Submissions
Consultation Reports
Band Business Interests
Band Owned Corporations
Court Records
Downloadable Court Decisions
- Conseil de la Nation Innu Matimekush-Lac John v. Association of Employees of Northern Quebec (CSQ)
- Association of employees of Northern Quebec v Matimekush-Lac John Innu Nation Band Council,
- McKenzie v. Conseil de la nation Innu Matimekush Lac-John
- Barrette & Fils ltée c. Conseil Innu de la Nation Matimekush-Lac-John
- Barrette & Fils ltée c. Conseil innu de la nation Matimekush-Lac-John
- 6793452 Canada inc. (Innu Électrique) c. Conseil Innu de la Nation Matimekush-Lac-John
- Utshu Construction enr. c. Conseil de la nation innu Matimekush Lac-John
- Utshu construction enr. c. Conseil de la nation innu Matimekush Lac John
- Conair Group Inc. v. International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 115
- Coyne c. Conseil de la Nation Innu Matimekush-Lac John
Active Court Cases
Media Reports
Media Reports
- Scenes from Canada’s First Indigenous-Owned Railway
- Reserves in Quebec
- Tainted drinking water found in several First Nations daycares and schools in Quebec
- Commuting, and Confronting History, on a Remote Canadian Railway (Published 2020)
- COVID-19 delays epic 4,500-km snowmobile trip
- 200-MW Apuiat windfarm scores $3 million from Indigenous Services Canada
- Schefferville train a vital link to life in Quebec's north
- The CIB invests $50M in Tshiuetin Rail
- Placing the Pandemic in Perspective: Cooking up comfort on the streets of Montreal
- Innu caribou hunt sparks debate over territorial and hunting rights among First Nations in Quebec
- First Indigenous owned and operated railway in Canada to be modernised
- First Nations' Overdue Payments to Hydro-Québec – September 24, 2024
- 'If we lose this fight, we lose everything': Naskapi, Innu nations oppose Quebec mining project
- Conflict re-ignited on Quebec's North Shore after local fisherman challenges Innu river rights
- Innu can pursue claim against mining companies in Quebec courts
- Schefferville train a vital link to life in Quebec's north
- Quebec Innu caribou hunt protests N.L. deal
- Montreal homeless advocates call for reform after coroner's report on Innu man's death
Academic Research
Academic Research
- The Terms of Our Surrender: Colonialism, Dispossession and the Resistance of the Innu
- 7 Realizing Indigenous rights
- Some reflections on hydroelectric development and the land rights of the Innu who live in Quebec and those who live in Labrador
- … socio-cultural interrelations and the socio-spatial dynamics between dogs and peoples in subarctic communities: the case of Kawawachikmach, Matimekush-Lac-John …
- An Innu-Naskapi ethnohistorical geography of industrial iron mining development at Schefferville, Quebec.
- Indigenous peoples' agency within and beyond rights in the mining context: The case of the Schefferville region
- Framing extractive violence as environmental (in) justice: a cross-perspective from indigenous lands in Canada and Sweden
- Two Too Many Solitudes: First Nations Employment Law and the Unintended Effects of Wilson on Indigenous Employers.
- Doing things differently: Design research in partnership with Innu and Inuit communities in Northern Québec, Canada
- Opening Ungava to industry: a decentring approach to Indigenous history in subarctic Québec, 1937–54
- Spring survey of caribou in the vicinity of Schefferville, May 2009
- L'Approche commune: nouvelle alliance innue-québécoise: la réaction au Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean: analyse des échanges dans les journaux (2000-2004)
- TRANSMISSION DES TERRITORIALITÉS INNUES ET INNOVATIONS SOCIALES: LA CONTRIBUTION MULTIFORME DE L'INSTITUT TSHAKAPESH
- De l'engagement communautaire à la défense du territoire: les voix politiques des femmes innues face à l'exploitation minière
- Les constitutions autochtones écrites: le cas de la démarche constitutionnelle de la Première Nation des Pekuakamiulnuatsh
- Les voix politiques des femmes innues face à l'exploitation minière
- Les répercussions de la désindustrialisation sur l'espace habité des communautés de Schefferville et Matimekush, 1982-2011
- " S'il faut rapatrier tout ce qui est sacré, c'est la terre qui va venir à nous". Le processus de rapatriement des objets culturels et sacrés des Ilnuatsh de Mashteuiatsh, au …
- Les voix politiques des femmes innues face à l'exploitation minière
- Les voix politiques des femmes innues face à l'exploitation minière
- De l'engagement communautaire à la défense du territoire: les voix politiques des femmes innues face à l'exploitation minière
- Les voix politiques des femmes innues face à l'exploitation minière
- Les voix politiques des femmes innues face à l'exploitation minière
- Les voix politiques des femmes innues face à l'exploitation minière
- Les voix politiques des femmes innues face à l'exploitation minière
- Les voix politiques des femmes innues face à l'exploitation minière
- Les voix politiques des femmes innues face à l'exploitation minière
- Les voix politiques des femmes innues face à l'exploitation minière
- Les voix politiques des femmes innues face à l'exploitation minière
- Les voix politiques des femmes innues face à l'exploitation minière
- Les voix politiques des femmes innues face à l'exploitation minière
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