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Legal residence:Canada
Organization type:Foundation / charity
Funding agencies: Other
Sectors: Civil Society & NGOs, Environment & NRM, Grants & Grant Schemes, Social Development, Youth
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The Gwaii Trust Society owns and manages a multi-million-dollar perpetual fund for the benefit of all the people of Haida Gwaii. The fund generates investment income and the Society distributes part of that income every year through a variety of grant programs.In 1985, after more than a decade of attempts to work with the provincial government to protect the South Moresby Wilderness area, the Haida Nation designated what is now known as Gwaii Haanas, a Haida Heritage Site and a blockade was held on Lyell Island. The political standoff at Lyell Island brought worldwide attention to the issues of the land title dispute, the environment and economic matters. In 1988, the South Moresby Agreement was signed, which designated the area a National Park Reserve and created a Regional Economic Development Initiative fund. The Gwaii Trust Society is provincially registered as a non-profit society to maximize tax exemption for the Trust.
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