Walking in the Woods: A Matis Memoir

Herb Belcourt

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An updated edition of Herb Belcourt's remarkable life story with a brand-new foreword by the author.

The eldest of ten children, Belcourt grew up in a small log home near the M tis settlement of Lac Ste. Anne during the Depression. His father purchased furs from local First Nations and M tis trappers and, with arduous work, began a family fur trading business that survives to this day. When Belcourt left home at 15 to become a labourer in coal mines and sawmills, his father told him to save his money so he could work for himself. Over the next three decades, Belcourt began a number of small Alberta businesses that prospered and eventually enabled him to make significant contributions to the M tis community in Alberta.

Belcourt has devoted over 30 years of his life to improving access to affordable housing and further education for Aboriginal Albertans. In 1971, he co-founded CanNative Housing Corporation, a nonprofit agency charged with providing homes for urban Aboriginal people who confronted housing discrimination in Edmonton and Calgary. In 2004, Belcourt and his colleagues established the Belcourt Brosseau M tis Awards Fund, a $13-million endowment with a mandate to support the educational dreams of M tis youth and mature students in Alberta and to make a permanent difference in the lives of M tis Albertans.



Publisher: Brindle & Glass
Published: 11/07/2017
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.8lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781927366714

About the Author
Belcourt, Herb: - Herb Belcourt is an entrepreneur and philanthropist from Lac St. Anne, Alberta. He was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws by the University of Alberta in 2001, and was also the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Council of Aboriginal Business in 2016. He has been inducted into both Alberta's Hall of Fame and Edmonton's Hall of Fame, and January 20 was recently declared Herb Belcourt Day in Sherwood Park, Alberta.