He serves as an adjunct professor for the University of British Columbia's First Nations and Endangered Languages Program.

[10] As a child, Grant seldom saw his father as a result of the provisions of the Indian Act, which had stipulated that non-Indigenous peoples were unable to cohabit on reserve lands.

[9] The Grant family was made to move from Musqueam to Vancouver's Chinatown as a result of the removal of Indian status due to Agnes' marriage to a non-Indigenous man.

[5] As Grant's Indian status was not recognized, he was financially supported by his mother through his time in high school and three years of his apprenticeship.

[14] Grant worked as a heavy duty mechanic in the longshore industry and as an auto machinist for four decades prior to his retirement.

[3] Following his retirement, Grant enrolled into the First Nations Language Program in the University of British Columbia[2][16][14][3] and became an educator and an elder within the Musqueam community.

[18] During the 2010 Winter Olympics held in Vancouver, Grant aided in the formation of the cecəw stəlqayeʔ (Coastal Wolf Pack, Tsatsu Stalqayu) group of Coast Salish singers and dancers.

In 2014, Grant became an honorary graduate of the University of British Columbia's Native Indian Teacher Education Program (NITEP).

[18] Grant was profiled as part of the Chinese Canadian Stories project by the University of British Columbia.

[6][29][10] Grant was the subject of the 2007 documentary Writing the Land, produced by Kevin Lee Burton for the National Film Board of Canada, which documented his journey towards learning the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ language.