“Métis leaders from throughout Ontario”

The Métis Nation of Ontario’s Founding Delegates Assembly was held from May 5 to 7, 1994 at the 519 Church Street Community Centre in Toronto, following the announcement of MNO’s founding and inaugural Interim Board of Directors—the Provisional Council of the Métis Nation of Ontario—on October 20, 1993.

The MNO’s Founding Delegates Assembly was attended by “Métis leaders from throughout Ontario”. Founding Delegates from the seven historic Métis communities in northern Ontario were present, including those from the historic Northwestern Ontario, Northern Superior, Sault Ste. Marie, Georgian Bay, Abitibi Inland, and Mattawa Métis Communities. Founding Delegates also included Métis with ancestral connections to more western parts of the Homeland, who had moved to Ontario. 

Dignitaries from the Métis governments in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta also attended. 

Among those in attendance at the MNO’s 1994 Founding Delegates Assembly were the family of Steve Powley, whose harvesting charges by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources from the previous autumn would eventually lead to the Métis Nation’s landmark Métis rights victory at the Supreme Court of Canada a decade later.

See Our Sources

• Record of Motions - MNO Founding Delegates Assembly

• MNC Press Release from November 8, 1993

• MNO Statement of Prime Purpose

• MNC Expert Panel Final Report

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