Hamilton Indigenous Housing

What a great way to end the month of January by mentioning the various KMHC letters and notes on the bulletin boards. :P  Before the holidays I personally saw HOW Lynda Jones post a note on the board, she noticed tenants hanging around the lobby and complained this is a no no. (Obviously she’s spying via the security cameras).   My response - LOBBY!   We don’t have a lobby, it’s a stairway and where are tenants suppose to be while waiting for a taxi or a guest to arrive, perhaps outside in the sub zero weather!  She’s such a twat!  Oh and here's another one, remember the blog I wrote about the blue recycling bins.   During the holidays KMHC staff decided to put them back along the basement floor which is fine since they were closed for a week.     After the holidays they removed them and get this last week there’s a notice on the board announcing the KMHC office will put the blue bins back on the floor.   You see where I’m going with this! ...

Here’s an interesting tale I can finally share with my blog readers.   For many years I and my siblings were non status natives meaning we weren’t Gov’t registered to a native band/reservation.   Here is the story told by our family elders:   when our grandfather was a young man he was busy working in a saw mill out in the bush and didn’t bother to come home when the Canadian Gov’t officials came to register the Indian people.   He was a stubborn man who had little regard for the Gov’t he only spoke the Ojibway language and more concerned about having a job, you have to remember this was during the Depression era.   Unfortunately later when he married this caused a trickle effect his family were allowed to live on the reservation but considered non status Indians by the Canadian Federal Gov’t.  My mother was the middle child and never spoke about it.   Years later my uncles pleaded their case to the Gov’t eventually our grandfather was gran...