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Canada (Tla'amin Nation): partnership timeline briefing (January 2026)

Jan 10, 2026

Canada (Tla'amin Nation): partnership timeline briefing (January 2026)

This post captures the Canada case study arc from project launch through Phase II planning, as documented in the partnership’s year-by-year record for Tla’amin Nation and academic partners.

2022–2023: Launch and foundation

Section titled “2022–2023: Launch and foundation”
  • June 2022: SSHRC Partnership Grant announced; collaboration formalized between leads at University of Ottawa and University of Victoria and Tla’amin Nation.
  • Feb–Mar 2023: Tla’amin representatives joined the Solving-FCB inaugural partnership meeting at UBC.
  • Internal workshops on cross-departmental food security needs; ongoing General Assembly and Lands and Resources Open House engagement.
  • November 2023: Project visibility and recruitment in the Tla’amin Nation newsletter (Neh-Motl).

2024: Data, “seeds,” and treaty-focused research

Section titled “2024: Data, “seeds,” and treaty-focused research”
  • Social-ecological “seeds”: MSc work applied a trait framework to community projects; clam garden fieldwork with the Clam Garden Network identified a site near ancient mariculture infrastructure.
  • Kaylie Jones (UVic) began analyzing modern treaty implications for food security.
  • Karen Fediuk’s nutrition and distribution work reached major milestones for informing Solving-FCB.
  • Laurie Chan presented on fisheries adaptation at World Fisheries Congress (Seattle, March 2024).

2025: Phase II themes

Section titled “2025: Phase II themes”
  • Costa Rica partnership meeting (Feb 2025): Canada team used the Nature Futures Framework to map challenges and opportunities.
  • Planned and held workshops on vision, data, treaty negotiation, CCFS4N collaboration, and community synthesis.
  • Aleah Wong advanced aquaculture futures work (including UN Ocean Conference engagement in Nice, 2025).
  • Forward agenda: taste workshops, PAH Shellfish industry links, and climate modeling integrated into the Marine Plan.

Cross-case connections

Section titled “Cross-case connections”

Trait-based systems framing is compared with Netherlands modeling approaches; Ibrahim Issifu and Louise Teh link North American material with West Africa for global nutrition analysis.

Source material: internal Canada case-study timeline (2022–2025).