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The First Nations of the First Nations Employment Society
 
The First Nations Employment Society (FNES) service area is made up of ten First Nations within the southwest corner of the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. The geography of the FNES service area includes the urban and industrial parts of the Greater Vancouver area, and the geographic isolation of the Sunshine Coast.
 
The population of the ten First Nations is almost 10,000 people, but the service area as a whole contains over 54,000 Aboriginal people from all over the province and other parts of the country, over one-quarter of the entire Aboriginal population of the province.
 
From 2005 to 2009, the FNES communities conducted 4,508 client interventions. and provided employment services to 2.672 clients the First Nations Employment Centre. operated by FNES in downtown Vancouver provided interventions for an additional 3.926 clients, and provided services to 2.480 clients. In total, FNES conducted interventions with 8,434 clients. and provided employment services to 5.152 clients.
The table below lists the First Nations. their populations. their FNES related services, and an overview of the locations and most prominent industries in the region.
 
Check out more labour market info here:
http://www.bcstats.gov.bc.ca/pubs/pr_lfs.asp
http://www.greatsn.com/LMI.aspx

 

First Nation Location Population Interventions Clients Economic Charactoristics

Musqueam

Squamish

Tsawwassen

Tsleil-waututh

 Greater Vancouver including Delta, Richmond, Vancouver, Burnaby, North Vancouver, and West Vancouver

1200

3000

300

200

466

2837

39

41

327

1489

31

25

 Business and other services, retail & wholesale trade, and manufacturing, construction, finance & real estate, health and social services, education

Sechelt

Sliammmon

 Lower sunshine Coast including Sechelt, Gibsons, and Powell River

1200

600

321

162

173

138

Business services, contstruction, retail trade, and health care and social services

Homalco

Klahoose

 Upper Sunshine Coast, including the mainland coast, Cortex Island

500

200

163

46

128

31

 Business and other services, retail trade, agriculture and other resource based industries, and health care and social services

Lil'wat

N'Quatgua

 Pemberton area, including Pemberton and Whistler

2000

300

312

121

260

70

 Business services, construction and retail trade

 

Overall, the region is home to over half the province's population, and the full range of economic and employment opportunities from business services, to retail and wholesale trade, manufacturing, contraction, tourism, and natural resources including agriculture, energy, forestry, fishing, and mining.

Over 1.2 million people are employed in almost 100,000 businesses.

The ten points of service by FNES result in a relatively uneven distribution of services, due to the wide range in service area populations. Grouping the ten First Nations into four· points of service results in a more equitable distribution of population by service area. The figure above presents a graphic display of the four points of service.

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