Dokis First Nation : Band Highlights

Old Dams were constructed

Dokis Corpus Christi Parish Community Church was built.

Summer school started in the Dokis church for the children.

Community hall was built and school started on a regular basis.

Spill way was built.

Dokis School was constructed servicing grades one to eight. A non-Native teacher was hired and stayed in the living quarters attached to the school throughout the school months.

Dokis First Nation formed their own logging company.

Community hydro system was serviced to the Dokis First Nation as part of the Ontario Hydro network, and paid for by the Band.

Dokis was the first reserve in Ontario to allow non-Natives to hunt and fish on reserve land with a special license.

Dokis was the first reserve (besides the Arctic) to have a telephone service and directional radio tower installed.

Dokis children traveled to Monetville Public School for grades five to eight, and to French River Secondary School in Noelville for their secondary education. The bus lines at that time were contracted to Ronald Restoule, a member of the Dokis First Nation. Presently it is contacted to Lindsay Dokis. The students now go to Ecole Secondaire Northern Secondary School in Sturgeon Falls.

The Dokis Marina was constructed to cater to Band members and the increasingly growing tourist trade and operation.

Dokis Craft Shop constructed presenting Native Crafts from the local members for sale.

First Band Office and Clinic built to service the Dokis First Nation members.

Dokis Fire Hall and fire truck was purchased.

The teacher began traveling to and from his house, no longer living on the reserve for the school months.

The government gave Native women who married non-Natives their status and their children’s status back under Bill C-31. There is now an affluxuation of these Band members moving back to the reserve and claiming their legal rights.

A new Band Office and Clinic are constructed allowing a greater number of jobs and services to be offered.

Fire hydrants are placed on the reserve to assist the volunteer fire fighters in their duty.

A new Craft Shop is built replacing the old one. It is an authentic log cabin that is conveniently located by the beautiful shores of Dokis First Nation.

A library is built to replace the one in the school, offering a greater number of volume, references book, and computers.

A new school was built that held grades jr. kindergarten to grades six. At this present time the school only has jr. kindergarten to grades four. Our employees at the school consist of a principal who also teaches grades one to four, kindergarten teacher, teacher’s aid, secretary and a native language teacher. They are band members.