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Vancouver Board: Immigration

Lower Mainland Dept: KIM BAIRD, according to Vancouver Sun. At 28 years of age, Kim Baird became the Tsawwassen First Nation's youngest chief when she was elected to the position in 1999. During her six terms since, Baird became the first woman in B.C. history who is not an MLA to address the B.C. legislature, on the subject of the Lower Mainland's first urban land treaty. The treaty took effect in April 2009, giving the Tsawwassen band's 200 members more than 700 hectares of land. Baird is also a BC Hydro director and her first nation's representative on the Metro Vancouver board of directors and pOLITICS AND COMMUNITY Chief, Tsawwassen First Nation As reported in the news.
@t tsawwassen first nation, metro vancouver