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It aims at bringing closer Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal organisations to ensure its targeted clientele receives the variety and adequacy of services they need.
The organisation plays an active and positive role amongst Aboriginal People by helping intercultural rapprochement with Quebec society.
Projets Autochtones du Québec (PAQ) is pleased to announce the appointment of Heather Johnston as the Executive Director of the organization. This appointment follows the departure of Adrienne Campbell, who provided leadership, direction and inspiration to PAQ for eight years. PAQ also thanks Pierre Legros who served as interim Executive Director for a four-month period in 2019.
Heather has over 20 years of experience in delivering impactful programs in the areas of health, education and food security internationally, and with Indigenous organisations and communities in New Brunswick and Ontario. She brings to PAQ a diverse background in not-for-profit leadership, strategic planning, fundraising, program and grant management, Board governance, and volunteer coordination.
Heather recently served as President and CEO of Dignitas International, a Toronto-based global health and research organisation. From 1999 to 2012 she worked in Mali, West Africa, managing a diverse portfolio of projects for international development organisations, including Oxfam GB.
Heather is fluently bilingual in English and French. She holds a BA in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Toronto, and an MA in Management and Development of Cooperatives from the Université de Sherbrooke. In her spare time, Heather enjoys backwoods camping and canoeing, and being a soccer mom!
Please join us in welcoming Heather into this role.
Projets autochtones du Québec was born from an initiative of employees from the Native Friendship Centre of Montreal and from YMCA Downtown.
At that time, the goal of the research group was to collect and write scientific documentation.
Today, many Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal actors contribute to the operation of the organisation through both occasional and recurring projects aiming at addressing the needs of First Nations and Inuit of Montreal and of the whole Quebec territory, and at facilitating active and permanent collaboration between resources available on the territory.
Our services benefit exclusively to members of the Aboriginal community living in the province of Quebec.
My name is Simeonee and I’m from Kuujjuaraapik in Nunavik. In the 40’s and 50’s it was called Great Whale River and the nearest Cree community is Whapmagoostui. Inuktitut is my first language and it’s really important for me, it’s my identity. I can also speak English. I grow up with my family in a…
My name is Marie-Eve and I am from the Huron-Wendat Nation. I am currently working as a psychosocial worker at Projets Autochtones du Québec. I was born in the Outaouais region from a Quebecer mother and a Huron-Wendat father. I have 2 sisters and a brother. For all of us, it was important to do…
