Profiles of Alberta Women
Thelma Chalifoux – Supporting Information
Awards and honours
1995 – National Aboriginal Achievement Award (now the Indspire Award)
1999 – Bill Irwin Award from Catholic Social Services
2000 – Senator Thelma Chalifoux Award established at NAIT
2003 – Honorary Diploma, NAIT
2004 – Honorary Doctor of Laws, University of Toronto
2014 – Métis National Council Lifetime Achievement Award
2018 – Thelma Chalifoux Hall residence building built at the University of Alberta
2020 – Thelma Chalifoux School opened in Edmonton, Alberta
N.d. – Woman of Vision Award
Further reading
Chalifoux, Jenna. “Metis Matriarch – Thelma Chalifoux.” City Museum Edmonton. Edmonton City as Museum Project, March 22, 2016. https://citymuseumedmonton.ca/2016/03/22/metis-matriarch-thelma-chalifoux/.
George, Corinne. “If I Didn’t Do Something, My Spirit Would Die…’: Grassroots Activism of Aboriginal Women in Calgary and Edmonton, 1951-1985.” Masters thesis. University of Calgary, 2007. https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item?id=MR38054&op=pdf&app=Library.
Skelly, Julia. “Thelma Chalifoux.” The Canadian Encyclopedia, December 10, 2020. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/thelma-chalifoux.
Voyageur, Cora J. “Chalifoux, Thelma.” In My Heroes Have Always Been Indians: A Century of Great Indigenous Albertans, 65-66. Canada: Brush Education, 2018.
Publications and interviews
Chalifoux, Thelma & Johnson, Janis G. “Urban Aboriginal Youth: An Action Plan for Change: Final Report.” Report of the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples, Ottawa, 2003. http://www.turtleisland.org/news/absenuayrpt.pdf.
NAIT. “The Honourable Dr. Thelma Chalifoux, NAIT Metis Elder.” YouTube Video, 3:08. February 14, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-gjMm8fnaE&feature=emb_title.
Voyageur, Cora J. “A Conversation with Senator Thelma Chalifoux.” In Unsettled Pasts: Reconceiving the West Through Women’s History, edited by Sarah Carter et al. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2005.
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