Sioux Lookout's Angeconeb named to Order of Canada

While hockey greats Paul Henderson and Ken Dryden garnered most of the Order of Canada attention on New Year’s Eve, Northwestern Ontario has a reason to boast as well.

Sioux Lookout’s Garnet Angeconeb was honoured by Gov.-Gen. David Johnston, named an Order of Canada member for his lifetime of volunteer service to the community.

Originally from Lac Seul First Nation, Angeconeb was first elected to the Sioux Lookout council in 1985, where he led the charge to start the Sioux Lookout Anti-Racism Committee, which today has expanded to include the Sioux Lookout Coalition for Healing and Reconciliation for former residential school students, their families and the community as a whole.

Angeconeb spent six years, from 1963 to 1969, as a residential school student, according to his biography on the Aboriginal Healing Foundation’s website.