MAARS Team
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An important overarching goal, vision and objective of the Maritime Aboriginal Aquatic Resources Secretariate is instituting a multi-functioning team of Aboriginal professionals who can create collaborative partnerships with other stakeholders involved in aquatic resources, oceans management, the commercial fishing industry and decision making within a collaborative management body framework.
Each member of the MAARS team has specific roles and responsibilities. Together they share the tasks, knowledge, approaches and resolve to achieve the vision and role of Aboriginal Peoples in all aspects of aquatic resources knowledge, oceans management processes, commercial fishing industry planning, and decision making processes for the collective advancement and rightful share to aquatic resources for the sustained economic growth of the Maritime Aboriginal Peoples.
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The Maritime Aboriginal Aquatic Resources Secretariate is an established secretariate of the Maritime Aboriginal Peoples Council. The Maritime Aboriginal Peoples Council is the governing board of MAARS and approves policies. The operations and management of MAARS is handled by administrators.
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MAARS is administered by a director and operates out of Truro, Nova Scotia. The approach and administration of MAARS is through task activities and a team effort. Each MAARS team member is a vital link to MAARS achieving its vision, mission, goals, and objectives. The sustained growth of the partners' communities in the Atlantic commercial fishing industry, greater involvement in oeans management processes, decision making, and the contribution to the knowledge base about aquatic resources in and around the traditional homelands of the Mi'Kmaq, Malecite and Passamaquoddy is the catalyst for team effort and administration.
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Roger Hunka
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Roger Hunka, Implementation Secretariate Director has been appointed by the Board to advance in the formative years MAARS, the maritime region Aboriginal Peoples Partners Aquatic Resources and Oceans Management Collaborative Management Body.
Roger brings to MAARS over thirty years of administrative experience. For the past twenty years, Roger has been directly involved in formulating numerous organizational structures which accommodate and advance Aboriginal Peoples social, economic, cultural and political Institutions and Services.
Roger's experience covers: Adult Education, Producer Learning Manuals & Visuals, Reporter tribunals, boards, agencies, commissions, Intergovernmental Relationships, and continues to study the several generations of the evolution of the rights of societies.
» Contact Roger Hunka
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Mary Rose Watts
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Mary Rose Watts, MAARS Secretary/Financial Comptroller/Administrative Assistant (SCAA), located in the MAARS Administrative Office, Truro, Nova Scotia.
Mary Rose is a Mi'Kmaq, born in New Brunswick. Mary has raised a family and has worked for many decades with many Aboriginal entities and Aboriginal Organizations in Nova Scotia.
Mary brings to the Team experience as an Administrative Assistant, Economic Development Co-ordinator, Gallery Manager, Woman Entrepreneur, Payroll Clerk, and Community Volunteer.
Mary Rose has traveled extensively, lived in England for several years, graduated with honours in the fields of Accounts Management, and Power Point Presentation. Mary graduated from Mount St. Vincent University with a degree in Business Administration and Marketing. Mary is well known by many in the Mi'Kmaq community and the Mi'Kmaq leadership.
» Contact Mary Rose Watts
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Barry LaBillois
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Barry LaBillois, Community Aquatic Resources Development Advisor (CARDA) is the multi-stakeholder lead in New Brunswick and contact advisor to the Aboriginal Seafoods Network Inc, stationed in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
Barry is a Mi'Kmaq who has always lived on traditional ancestral Mi'Kmaq homelands (off reserve) in New Brunswick. Barry is community involved - President of Durham Local 7 and Board of Director of NBAPC, and has served on several committees.
Barry was instrumental in organizing the Aboriginal Seafoods Network Inc., the communal commercial fishery enterprise of NBAPC. Barry also is a member of NBAPC, AFS strategy group.
Barry was educated in New Brunswick, acquired hands on 'fisher' knowledge and experience, and he managed the ASN Inc. for several years. Barry is well known to many commercial fishery groups and DFO managers in the Gulf Region. Barry continues the cultural connection with the lands, waters, forests, foul, animal, and aquatic resources by practicing Mi'Kmaq harvesting and the traditional knowledge passed to him. Barry volunteers time with youth and was a hockey rink attendant for eleven years.
» Contact Barry LaBillois
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Joshua McNeely
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Joshua McNeely, Regional Facilitator for MAPC-IKANAWTIKET was hired by the 3 partner Native Councils to initiate a MAPC regional environmental respect service, IKANAWTIKET, for the Maritimes Region Traditional Ancestral Homelands Aboriginal Peoples and their Native Councils, ACCFEs, and MAARS. Joshua is located in the MAARS Truro regional office.
Joshua is of Romani decent from Bohemia, in Eastern Europe. Like his ancestors, Joshua has lived in many places, with a suitcase that is always packed. Originally from the State of Illinois, Joshua and his wife Kimberley Belliveau currently live in a '150 year old restoration project' in Mount Pleasant, Nova Scotia. He is a graduate of Mount Allison University (Sackville, NB) with a B.Sc. in Biology and Chemistry. Joshua also has additional formal education and training in office administration, human resources development, and workforce education development.
Joshua's work and volunteer history has been quite varied, giving him a wealth of experience to draw upon for this important assignment with MAPC. He has an understanding of the pace of government from his work in government offices, has a strong sense of duty instilled by service in the U.S. Navy, and has an analytical mind sharpened through work in an environmental laboratory and university training.
Where Joshua is most at home though is in the outdoors. Some of his fondest memories are of his river restoration work with the Cumberland County River Enhancement Association and community volunteer work with the Boy Scouts of America, through which he holds the highest rank of Eagle Scout.
Joshua loves to explore new places, history, and understanding about our natural world. He is keenly interested in examining how people inter-relate through culture, religion, and politics. Most appropriately, Joshua's first love has always been in the beauty of all things that grow and move and of the smell and touch of earth and rain.
» Contact Joshua McNeely
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Aaron Allen
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Aaron Allen, the MAPC/MAARS Webmaster, has worked as a web designer, programmer and consultant for more than 20 years on many different projects both locally and nationally.
Based in Truro, Nova Scotia, Aaron works from his home office and provides ongoing support for this project and many others. His range of experience includes work as a freelance journalist and writer.
Working closely with Roger Hunka and the rest of the MAARS team, Aaron has been busy developing this website as well as other online tools for the MAARS Team.
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The three Aboriginal Peoples Representative Organizations' communities live throughout the large Maritime region and, as the coastal Aboriginal Peoples of the Maritimes, occupy one of the longest coastlines in Canada. The area is prolific with many stake holder interests and ocean user activities involving many aquatic resources, oceans management, fishing industry, and decision making processes.
To cost effectively reach the entire region, the MAARS Community Aquatic Resources Development Advisors (CARDAs) are strategically deployed within the three Maritime Provinces with MAARS stations in Truro, Fredericton, and Charlottetown.
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©2013 Maritime Aboriginal Peoples Council (MAPC-MAARS)
172 Truro Heights Road
Truro Heights, Nova Scotia
B6L 1X1 Canada
Tel: 902.895.2982
Fax: 902.895.3844
E-mail: maars@mapcorg.ca
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