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Founding president of the Yukon Native Brotherhood
- Smith was the founding president of the Yukon Native Brotherhood, a founding chairperson of the Council for Yukon Indians (now the Council of Yukon First Nations) and Yukon representative to the National Indian Brotherhood. He was also chief of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation.
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Jun 8, 2021 · Reverend Dr Elijah Wade Smith (pictured), originally from California, was emotionally abusive to his girlfriend and humiliated her in public as well as cheating on her with a teenager, while...
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Sep 30, 2022 · Dr Elijah Smith was removed from his Glasgow parish in disgrace in 2019 after a Church of Scotland investigation established he had begun an affair with a married congregant shortly into his...
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Smith was the son of Annie Ned and spent his entire life in the Yukon, except for six years he spent in Britain in the Canadian Army during the Second World War. His experience in the war changed his views about equality, how First Nations were treated and the need to protect their land and way of life. On his return to Canada after the war, Smith ...
By the mid-1960s, the Yukon First Nations became concerned that they might lose their cultural identity and began to organize. Smith spoke at federal government hearings in Whitehorse, conducted in response to the government’s 1969 White Paper, formally known as the “Statement of the Government of Canada on Indian Policy, 1969.” Prime Minister Pier...
Smith was the founding president of the Yukon Native Brotherhood, a founding chairperson of the Council for Yukon Indians (now the Council of Yukon First Nations) and Yukon representative to the National Indian Brotherhood. He was also chief of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation. (His sons, Mike and Steve, were later elected chiefs as well). Smith was ah...
On 14 January 1976, it was announced that Smith would be a Member of the Order of Canada “for his dedicated services to his people and for his ability to settle grievances peaceably.” He was invested into the order on 7 April 1976. (Smith’s mother was later made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1989 for a lifetime of “maintaining and promoting th...
On 22 October 1991, Smith was driving his pickup truck on the Robert Campbell Highway (Highway 4) at kilometre 261 near Finlayson Lake, when he lost control of the vehicle on the icy road. He was killed when he crashed head-on into a semi-trailer truck.
In 1992, the Government of Canada main offices in Whitehorse for the Yukon was named the Elijah Smith Building. That same year, the Elijah Smith Elementary School opened in Whitehorse. In 2020, the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations nominated Smith for Canada’s new five dollar bank note, to replace the 2013 version depicting Prime Minister Sir Wi...
Jun 8, 2021 · Reverend Dr Elijah Wade Smith, was emotionally abusive to his girlfriend and humiliated her in public as well as cheating on her with a teenager, while working in Glasgow.
May 22, 2019 · Rev Dr Elijah Wade Smith, 32, is said to have abused his position in Glasgow just four years into the job.
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Oct 24, 2021 · His father, who died in Oct. 1991, was the first Chairman of the Council for Yukon Indians and the first President of the Yukon Native Brotherhood. But he is perhaps best known as the...
May 22, 2019 · Rev Dr Elijah Wade Smith, 32, was minister at Glasgow's Queens Park Church, Govanhill, but was last week told to leave his post. BBC Scotland understands he was accused of abusing his position...
