OUR COLLECTION OF NEWS RELEASES, ARTICLES, AND MEDIA RESOURCES.
If you want your news/articles to be promoted on this page, send your information to Nigel Gloade, Communications Officer at ngloade@millbrookfn.ca or call (902) 324-3379.
Be sure to include ALL relevant information (including the who, what, when, where, why and how to find out more).
Over the next few weeks, Millbrook By-law & Public Safety will be conducting bear checks in the Fern South and Spruce Ave areas; if a bear is spotted, By-law Officer Adam Francis will be deploying a bear banger which is a projectile that sounds like a shotgun to try and attempt to scare the bear. Security and RCMP will notify the community via Facebook before deploying the Bear Banger. I appreciate your understanding.
- Millbrook By-law & Public Safety
SUNDAY SKATE CLOSURES: Dear community members, there will be no ice available on March 19 and April 16 at the Rath Eastlink Community Centre. Sunday Morning skates are cancelled for those dates. - Rath Eastlink Community Centre
The Administration Office will be CLOSED for the DAY, due to weather conditions and the roads being unfit for travel.
OFFICE REOPENING: Millbrook’s Administration Office will REOPEN at 9:00AM tomorrow, Friday, February 17.
A reminder that the office will be closed on Monday, February 20, in observance of Heritage Day honouring Millbrook born, Mi’kmaw poet, Rita Joe.
Thank you all for your patience.
Millbrook Administration Office is closed until further notice. Water main break is currently being fixed.
Daniel Paul’s portrait by Mi’kmaw artist Alan Syliboy will be displayed at Dalhousie University to honour his enormous contributions to the recognition and understanding of the history and continued significance of the Mi’kmaq people regionally and nationally.
Mi’kmaw elder, author, editor, and activist Daniel Paul has made an indelible mark in Canadian history and the history of Turtle Island, as the author of his ground-breaking book, We Were Not the Savages, which is now in its fourth edition. This authoritative version of Mi’kmaq history challenges conventional versions of Canadian colonial history by exposing the violence inflicted on Mi’kmaq populations from the beginning of European colonization of the New World to the present. Daniel Paul has fundamentally changed how we understand Canada’s origins and the complex roles and sophisticated social, political, economic and cultural structures of the Mi’kmaq people. He was recently diagnosed with terminal cancer; the portrait of Daniel Paul by talented Mi’kmaw artist, Alan Syliboy will provide a lasting tribute to Paul and his singular impact on Canadian history.
Our goal is to raise $8500 for this commissioned portrait. Any extra funds raised will be put toward a scholarship to be established in Daniel Paul’s honour at Dalhousie.
Please be advised that Millbrook busing services are for Millbrook band members and community members. Non-band members will be allowed on buses at the driver's discretion and only if spaces are available. I appreciate your cooperation.
- Educational Services
MEDIA RELEASE
Dedication ceremony for Indigenous healing garden at Colchester East Hants Health Centre
Monday, Oct. 24, 2022
On Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022, a dedication ceremony will be held for the Indigenous healing garden at Colchester East Hants Health Centre in Truro beginning at 1:00 p.m., with people gathering at 12:30 p.m. in tents set up in the parking area adjacent to the hospital. Following the dedication ceremony, small group visits to the garden will be offered.
This is the first Indigenous healing garden of its kind within a hospital in Atlantic Canada. The initiative is the culmination of a partnership between the family of John C. Gloade of Millbrook First Nation and Colchester East Hants Health Central to transform the hospital’s healing garden into a memorial Indigenous healing garden. The ceremony will honour the life of Sheila Rose Gloade and dedicate the garden in her memory as a place within the hospital where patients, their families, and staff can find peace and tranquility.
The Indigenous health garden now contains traditional Indigenous symbols of healing that have been part of the Mi’kmaq culture for many centuries. The space is available to all clients of the hospital and provides a place for prayer and traditional Mi’kmaq ceremonies related to healing.
Please note:
o Public parking is available in front of Colchester East Hants Health Centre.
o Masks will be required when moving through the hospital to reach the garden.
Please contact our media relations team if you plan to attend or if you have questions about the event at NSHAmedia@nshealth.ca.
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Millbrook First Nation is seeking four (4) interested candidates to take part in School Bus Driver Training with Commercial Safety College.
This is not a guarantee for work placement, however upon successful completion of the three (3) week School Bus Driver Training program you will place you on a sub list for MFN bus drivers.
Stipends will be allotted based on provincial standards. We are looking to fill 4 seats for this training. A valid class 5 drivers license is a pre-requisite for this training.
For more information please email klittle@millbrookfn.ca and include the following details/ or complete the online form below:
Name:
Phone number:
Email:
DEADLINE TO SUBMIT INTEREST October 28, 2022
Cheques are now mostly processed and ready for pick up . Please take note of the details for pick up.
Millbrook Pick Up at Administration office for all local Truro area residents on Thursday and Friday. Friday pick up in Millbrook only will be 9am-10:30am and 1-4:30pm at the Millbrook Administrative building.
Sheet Harbour/Beaver Dam will be delivered door to door by our EMO team.
Cole Harbour residents on reserve will be delivered door to door by EMO team.
Most HRM residents, cheques will be available for pick up at the Cole Harbour Office on Thursday at 584 Caldwell Road. However, please phone or text ahead because not all cheques are ready yet and we don’t want you to waste a trip. The number for Cole Harbour is 902-449-2817.
If not picked up, the remainder will be mailed next week.
If we have missed anyone or if there are any issues, staff will manage those early next week.
We would like to thank you for your patience and co-operation during these difficult times. Your health and safety remains our utmost priority as we all navigate through this recovery time from Hurricane Fiona.
Wela’lioq
Chief Bob Gloade
Council & Staff
All Millbrook Band Members households in Atlantic Canada,
We are providing financial support immediately of $300 per household. Cheques will be prepared from existing list used during Covid. Pick up date will be announced, once ready, in coming days. There will be pick up dates announced shortly and residents in satellite communities will also have pick up dates in Cole Harbour and Sheet Harbour/ Beaver Dam. Cheques not picked up or hand delivered will be put in the mail after a couple of days. Dates not determined yet and will be next week at the earliest once processed. We will keep you posted.
If your address has changed since Covid supports we’re provided in January 2022 please notify the office at (902) 897-9199 or email reception@millbrookfn.ca
More specific details will be provided once cheques are processed.
Millbrook First Nation
Chief Bob Gloade
Dear Millbrook Community, We hope this message finds you all safe and sound after this last weekends storm. This message is to inform the community that the Millbrook Early Education Centre pre-school and afterschool program will remain CLOSED until further notice due to the impacts of the recent storm. We will keep you informed as this situation evolves.
Please note that the Millbrook Day Care will be OPEN for normal operations effective tomorrow September 27, 2022.
Thank you for your continued support.
Sincerely,
Educational Services
As of September 13th, 2022, for the remainder of the week, we are down to one bus. Chris's bus
in the morning will do his Elementary run and then come back and do Vinny's Elementary run and then come back and do his CEC and Junior High run and then come back and do Vinny's CEC and Junior High run.
After school, Chris will do the Elementary run, and the CEC run will be on time. Truro Middle School will be approximately 30 minutes late.
Please, if you can drive your children yourself, do so. Thank you, and sorry for the inconvenience.
The Housing Department is postponing our housing meetings on the policy. I will provide the new dates soon.
Canceled Events
- August 30th, 2022- Sheet Harbour at 202 Pool Rd., Sheet Harbour from 5:00-8:00pm
- August 31st, 2022- Cole Harbour at the A-Frame Building- 665 Caldwell Rd., Cole Harbour from 5:00-8:00pm
- September 1st, 2022- Millbrook First Nation at the Millbrook Community Hall from 1:00-4:00pm and 5:00-8:00pm
Due to the presence of an endangered North Atlantic Right Whale near Tiverton, Nova Scotia, Millbrook Fisheries is strongly recommending the use of whale-safe gear on all ropes associated with Millbrook community FSC trap fisheries in the vicinity of Saint Mary’s Bay and the Bay of Fundy portions of LFA 34 affected by this commercial fishery closure. Weak links can be obtained directly from Millbrook Fisheries, which will allow ropes to break away in the event of whale entanglement. More information can be found at the following DFO link: https://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fisheries-peches/commercial-commerciale/atl-arc/narw-bnan/index-eng.html
