Welcome! Frontiers Foundation is a non-profit aboriginal voluntary service organization that promotes the advancement of economically and socially disadvantaged communities. Through the Operation Beaver Program, with volunteers from across the globe, we work with aboriginal communities to provide affordable housing and improvements in education. With the support of government and charitable donations, both from the private sector and individuals, we operate within Canadian borders, and Overseas.
If you would like to bring a refreshment, please feel free to do so.
Christmas Carols will include: Silent Night, Jingle Bells, ‘While Shepherds Washed their Socks by Night’, Deck the Halls, The First Noel, Joy to the World, etc.
Marilyn Gilles, Charles Catto and Patsy Cuffy in front of the newly donated Dodge 4WD truck for FF work in Northwestern Ontario.Since the first week of October a newly donated Dodge 4WD Quad cab truck increased the Frontiers/Beaver fleet to be used by our Regional Co-ordinator Rick Weatherley based in Spanish, Ontario. Rick came down to Markham to pick it up on October 16th. This diesel wonder can do it all – carrying six people in comfort, haul trailers or portable saw mills, construction materials and should work for us for many years.
CIVICUS Secretary-General Kumi Naidoo with Frontiers Foundation ED Marco A. GuzmanFrontiers Foundation Executive Director Marco A. Guzman was invited to attend the CIVICUS 6th world assembly held in Glasgow, Scotland on June 21 – 25, 2006. The international event took place at Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre and Armadillo Building on the shores of Clyde River. There was a significant focus on the role of civil society in the global efforts to secure social, economic and civic justice.
John Tory Leader of the Ontario PC addressing the Frontiers Foundation audience at RBC 40th Floor in Toronto.Frontiers Foundation an Aboriginal voluntary service organization recently celebrated its 42nd Anniversary of Operation Beaver at the Royal Bank of Canada. Over a hundred people among past and current Operation Beaver volunteers, Frontiers Board, supporters and friends old and new gathered at the 40th Floor of RBC, 200 Bay Street in downtown Toronto early on Thursday June 29, 2006. M.C. Bonnie Johnston welcomed everyone including special guests like Mr. Paul Winakur of The Foresters; Ontario Ministry of Housing team: Dino, Amanda and Thera; Vaughan MPP Georgina Bencsik; noted author James Bacque plus Quebec Field Coordinators Lylas and Evelyn Polson. She also thanked Mary Fox for her generous donations of crafts for the silent auction. Shelley Charles said the thanksgiving prayer in Ojibwa, her mother language. Later the buffet Native and non-Native breakfast was served.
Frontiers Foundation and the Toronto Eglinton Rotary Club are hosting the Eleventh Annual Charity Golf Tournament with all proceeds going to support the work of the Frontiers Foundation.
The tournament will be held at the Shawneeki Golf Club (link to map of golf club).
1:00 p.m. Shotgun Start (please be at the Club no later than 12:15 p.m.)
Trophy - Ed Paul Trophy
Prizes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd place teams
Scramble format
Prizes for closest to Pins, par 3’s, longest drive and Hole-In-One
From L to R: Roland Niganobe, Project Amik Superintendent; Liss Larson FF Regional Coordinator; Kristen Harder, Amik Project Manager; and Marco Guzman, FF Executive Director in front of the brand new truck donated by The Rotary Club of Toronto.The Rotary Club of Toronto provided a new pick up truck for the work of Frontiers Foundation in Northern Ontario. On Thursday March 30th, 2006, Charles Catto and Marco Guzman went to Mississauga to pick up an F-150 Ford 4WD pick up truck donated by The Rotary Club of Toronto. Rev. Catto was instrumental in contacting and securing the much needed vehicle for the work of our Aboriginal voluntary service organization.
Our host Charles Coffey Vice-President of RBC Financial Group with FF President Lawrence Gladue at the 2005 Frontiers Foundation Breakfast.We are pleased to announce our annual Frontiers Foundation Breakfast, hosted by the Royal Bank of Canada in downtown Toronto.
Past and current volunteers, Frontiers Board, supporters and friends are all invited to attend this important event in the life of our Aboriginal voluntary service organization celebrating the 42nd anniversary of Operation Beaver. Further details will be posted soon.
You might have noticed a new look for the Frontiers Foundation website. Please take a look around and let us know what you think. There are quick a few new things happening behind the scenes that can make the website much more extendible in addition to functions you'll notice such as being able to search all content on the website as well as change the text size.
Photo: From L to R: Marco Guzman, Hon. Joe Fontana, Hon. Maria Minna, and Charles Catto at Frontiers Foundation in Toronto.On December 2, Frontiers and New Frontiers Executives and staff were delightfully surprised by some very welcome visitors: Honourable Joe Fontana, Federal Minister of Labour and Housing; Honourable Maria Minna, MP for Beaches-East York; and their entourage.
After a quick tour of Project Amik, our guests lingered for a brief meeting in the Frontiers/New Frontiers office. Both Mr. Fontana and Mrs. Minna assured Messrs. Stark, Guzman and Catto of the Martin government’s good faith respecting removal of the three millstones around affordable social housing Project Amik’s financial neck: CMHC mortgage insurance, GST, and Project Development Fund “debt” totaling over $500,000. Again and again, Mr. Fontana and Mrs. Minna assured us that real dollars would be forthcoming, well before Christmas.
This year, Santa is coming from Brazil and will be at Frontiers Foundation on Wednesday December 21, 2005. You are kindly invited to join us between 1 to 3 p.m. and bring a small Christmas gift and/or snacks / drinks to share. As usual, Charles Catto and Nettie Hoffman will be at the piano to sing Christmas carols such as Silent Night, Jingle Bells, “While Shepherds Washed their Socks by Night”, Huron Christmas, Deck the Halls, The First Noel, Joy to the World, and so on.
This year, Santa is coming from Brazil and will be at Frontiers Foundation on Wednesday December 21, 2005. You are kindly invited to join us between 1 to 3 p.m. and bring a small Christmas gift and/or snacks / drinks to share. As usual, Charles Catto and Nettie Hoffman will be at the piano to sing Christmas carols such as Silent Night, Jingle Bells, “While Shepherds Washed their Socks by Night”, Huron Christmas, Deck the Halls, The First Noel, Joy to the World, and so on.
