Whitesand First Nation

The community of Armstrong Settlement is their main community, located coterminously with Armstrong, Thunder Bay District, Ontario.

Originally located along the northwest shore of Lake Nipigon near Mount St. John, and near the Whitesand River which gives name to the group, Whitesand First Nation was without a home from 1942 when high water levels began eroding the shoreline and flooding out their buildings and burial grounds.

Due to the economic influence of the Canadian National Railway, many Whitesand First Nation members settled along the CNR rail line.

Consequently, when a new Reserve was negotiated, it was located immediately north of that community.

Whitesand is policed by the OPP an agreement made between chief and council and OPP (OPP: Ontario Provincial Police) The current electoral leadership of the council consists of Chief Allan Gustufson and six councillors: Barbara Doblej, Jim Doblej, Raymond Kwandibens, Yvette Kwandibens-Toset, Wayne Matchiendagos and James Nayanookeesic.