Drew Atkins
$10,000.00 CAD
≈ 2 months of average Canadian pay
- Department
- Parks Canada
- Recipient country
- Canada
- Fiscal year
- 2024-2025
- Agreement period
- March 12, 2025 – April 30, 2025
- Reference
- pc:154-2024-2025-Q4-00200
Published purpose
This grant supports Drew Atkins an Indigenous artist with Kwantlen First Nation who designed, built, and installed the Spirit Square and Salmon Walk at Fort Langley National Historic Site. Drew Atkins is the original artist and Indigenous community member who built this space, and it is customary for the original artist to do restoration, repair, and enhancement work to their original pieces. This grant will also support building capacity for Kwantlen’s community knowledge through working with and teaching his family, who are Kwantlen youth, about his work as a carver and passing down these traditional skills.
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Success story
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