LOCAL BUSINESS
Here is a listing of some of the businesses in our community.

   
Post Office

Particular is retired postmistress Denise Giroux. She started working with the postal service on February 15, 1975 and has recently retired in 1990. After 15 years of service she still helps out with the postal duties part-time. Her daughter Jessica Giroux is the new postmistress taking over after Denise retired. The Post Office is now located at the Band Administration Building.

 
 
 Patrick's Gas Bar

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Was first operational in January 1994 under the name P&R confectionary and gas. It then relocated to its new site and re-opened on September 17, 1999.
 
Patrick's gas bar  consists of the purchase of diesel, gas, tobacco products, and confectionary products (groceries and fast foods).
 
Owners:  Jimmy and Laura Giroux
 

BILLS AUTO

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 Owner Bill Bellerose
 Phone : (780) 355 - 3930
Cell : (780) 405 - 3529

CAB BUSINESSES

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Roger Okimaw had horses ever since he was a young man but he first started his farming/ranching business in the year 1967. He started out with 46 horses, but he in 1972 and 1973 purchased 13 cows and started his new cattle business venture. He also purchased some machinery equipment for maintenance of his livestock. They consisted of a tractor, a bailer, a mower-hay cutter, and 1 wagon. During 1967 and 1978 he bought and sold his horses and along the way he started buying more and more cattle, and in 1974 he sold most of his horses except for 4. By 1980 he had around 20 cows, but in 1983 he decided to sell all his livestock and get out of the ranching business.
 
In 1988-1990 he went through the rotating heard opportunity process with Driftpile First Nation. By 1990 he was back up to 15 cattle-10 heifers, and 5 cows.
 
By 1990 he sold all his cattle (cows) and bought 16 longhorn cows. He also purchased a 2-horse trailer, 2 wagons, a disk, and a seed drill.
 
As of today in the year 2001 he has 4 horses, 27 cows, 26 calves, and 6 heifers for a total of 65 livestock in his farming and ranching business. With hard work he has made his business venture a stable and secure farming/ranching business.

 
FREEMAN CONSTRUCTION SERVICES
 
Freeman Construction is a business venture by one of our community members, Clifford Freeman. The business offers services in backfilling, driveways, and landscaping for both in/out of the community. He started his business in the year 1987 when he purchased a one-ton truck, a 450-6 Way Blade Cat with trailer. In 1989 he purchased other service trucks for his business (four more trucks-1978 G.M. single axel, 1979 international tandem, 1981 Ford 800 series, and a 1980 international tandem). Today he offers services with additional equipment for his business. He also purchased a 1990 and a 1993 truck, he has 2 bobcats for snow removal (contracts on and off the reserve), 920 cat loader (rubber tire) – for loading gravel trucks, and removal of snow. His drivers are local band members from the community.
 
Home Phone:    780-355-2123
 
CLIFFORD FREEMAN FARM / RANCH
 
Clifford Freeman has had horses since he was a young man but he started his farming/ranching business venture in the year 1988. He started out with purchasing 5 heifers, 2 tractors, 2 mowers, 1 square bailer, a hay rake, and a 3-ton flatbed truck. He went through the Indian Agriculture Development Co-operation for funding of 12 more head of cattle. He also purchased 10 heifers from a local farmer from High Prairie, Alberta.
 
Today he has 33 cows, 2 bulls, and 24 calves-he sells most of the calves to cover costs for the season. He also purchased additional equipment for his farming/ranching business: 2 round bailers, a mower conditioner, 1 diesel truck for pulling hay trailer, a seeder, and a disk plow. With hard work he has made his business venture a stable and secure farming/ranching business.
 

FREEMAN FARMING / RANCHING
 
Peter Freeman started his business venture in the year 1992. He first started out with 10 head of cattle and his farming/ranching business venture was under way. He applied with the Indian Agriculture Development Co-operation for funding of 12% for the purchase of cattle and pasture. It is available to all Aboriginal Natives who apply. He also purchased some machinery equipment for his business to maintain the quality of his livestock – (tractor, bailer, and hay binder). He also re-opened his fathers’ old pasture and rented land off local band members to produce feed for his animals.
 
Later in 1999-2001 he went through the rotating heard opportunity process with Driftpile First Nation. Today his farming/ranching business is up to 26 head of cattle and 10 horses. He has also purchased a hay wagon for hauling hay and a stock trailer for transportation of his livestock. He cannot purchase any more cattle due to the lack/restrictions of land on the reserve but with hard work he has made his business venture a stable and secure farming/ranching business.

LOCAL HOME BUSINESSES
 
 
 JAMES WARD-LAWN CARE
James Ward
 
 GLEN’S BUSINESS CONTRACTING-LAWN CARE
Glen Giroux

A-Z PRINTING 
Zita Laboucan
 
  A & J. BUSSING 
Joe Laboucan