WASAYA GROUP INC
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Wasaya means rising sun in the Oji-Cree dialect and the logo of Wasaya, which depicts a sunburst with eight sunrays, represents each original owner community.
Welcome to Wasaya Group Inc.
At the Wasaya Group, relationships are our priority. Success brings more success to the people and organizations that you have relationships with. As employers, employees, friends and family to our First Nations communities, we want to bring that success. It's more than providing services. It's providing the services that are needed - in a way that is exceptional.
Our First Nation Ownership Communities:
Bearskin Lake First Nation
Fort Severn First Nation
Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug ( KI )
Wunnumin Lake First Nation
Nibinamik First Nation
Kingfisher Lake First Nation
Keewaywin First Nation
Pikangikum First Nation
Wapekeka First Nation
Muskrat Dam First Nation
Kasabonika Lake First Nation
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WGI NEWS:
Celebrating 22 Years 1989 - 2011
WASAYA GROUP OF COMPANIES
MARCH 2011: TAKING FLIGHT PROJECT GRADUATION: Wasaya Group Inc & SLAAMB partnered to provide a 15 month program to help aboriginal people access the aviation related trades...
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WGI's 20th Anniversary Celebration & AGM held in Wunnumin Lake July, 2010. Read more...
Lac Seul First Nation & Wasaya Group Inc. sign Letter of Intent. Photo: left to right, Tom Kamenawatamin, President /CEO, WGI & Chief Clifford Bull, Lac Seul First Nation sign LOI in Lac Seul.
Self Sufficiency and Self Determination through Business Partnerships and Economic Development
Wasaya Airways unveiled the first of 3 Dash 8 aircraft that the 100% First Nations owned company has added to their fleet. Read more...
Wasaya Group Inc & Wasaya Community Economic Development Corporation are pleased to announce the newest initiative of the Wasaya Group - "Wasaya Wilderness Adventures" (WWA). WWA is a result of Communities and Camp owners requesting if Wasaya could somehow fill the gap left when the former Aboriginal Tourism Association "NONTA" ceased operations in 2009. Read more...
WGI thanks FedNor for technology support funding. Megwetch!
WASAYA GROUP EXPANSION
ADDS HELICOPTERS
Wasaya Group Inc. has launched a new joint venture partnership with the "Rainy Lake Tribal Development Corporation", "Windigo Community Development Corporation" and "V. Kelner Aviation." Twenty (20) First Nation Communities are represented...read more..
JULY 13, 2011. Mr. Tom Kamenawatamin, President & CEO of Wasaya Group Inc., is pleased to announce that an agreement was signed with Lazanko Inc. on July 13, 2011 to buy the outstanding shares of Wasaya Petroleum Limited Partnership owned by their Manitoba partner. Read more...
WASAYA GROUP INC. NOW FULLY OWNS WASAYA PETROLEUM LP
WASAYA GROUP INC. & CITY OF THUNDER BAY SPONSOR YOUTH ORIENTATION EVENT WELCOMING FIRST NATION STUDENTS TO CITY OF THUNDER BAY.
October 5, 2011. Mr. Tom Kamenawatamin, President & CEO of Wasaya Group Inc., & CITY OF THUNDER BAY Mayor Keith Hobbs join others in welcoming First Nation Students who are attending city high schools. The event hosted at Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School saw many city service agencies also welcome youth with a variety of information booths that were well stocked with brochures and advisors providing valuable resouces to our youth. Read more...
2011 Wasaya Youth Aviation Camp was held July 4 - 8, 2011
30 youth from First Nation communities (ages 13 -15) attended the 4th Annual Wasaya Flight Camp in Thunder Bay! This year's Camp was held In partnership with Wasaya Airways LP, Confederation College & Negahneewin College, & the Kenny Family Foundation. Read more...
SUCCESS! CT SCANNER COMING SOON TO SIOUX LOOKOUT! GRAND OPENING CEREMONY NOV 3, 2011. Read more...
October 27, 2011 Wasaya First Nation ownership communities grow to eleven as Fort Severn becomes the 11th shareholder of the 100% First Nation owned Company. Wasaya Group & Wasaya Airways announced Friday....Read more..
October 27, 2011: Wasaya Group expands operations to add "Ohteban" Trucking - a Joint Venture with Morgan Transfer, a 100% aboriginal owned Company. Read more...
October 27, 2011: "Wasaya Dowland Contracting" - Wasaya Group expands into the Construction Industry as they form a new Joint Venture with Dowland Contracting Ltd. Hospitals, Arenas, Mines, Transmission Lines, Hotels, etc. are... Read more...
FORT SEVERN FIRST NATION
"OHTEBAN" Wasaya Trucking:
Morgan Transfer's Anne and
Darrel Morgan announce a new
joint venture partnership along
with Wasaya Group President
and Chief Executive Officer,
Tom S. Kamenawatamin - at
Thunder Bay media event.
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Wasaya Community Economic Development Corporation - WCEDC
NEW!
"Wasaya Wilderness Adventures"
Dec. 20, 2011
KWG $2 Million Placement To Assist United Way Of Thunder Bay & Wasaya Group/Wasaya Wee-Chee-Way-Win Inc., In The Founding Of Cromarty H.S. Residences: Chief Theresa Okimaw-Hall, executive director of Canada Chrome, the transportation arm of KWG, said the company will complete a private placement of flow-through shares to fund its half of the drilling program now underway with Cliffs Natural Resources at the Big Daddy chromite deposit in the James Bay lowlands.
Funds generated by the sale, through a deal between the company and the Wasaya Group/Wasaya Wee-Chee-Way-Win Inc. will be made available for the acquisition, furnishing and maintenance of residences for students attending Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School. Read more: