Veronica Haddon

Northern Regional Senior Manager

Veronica has mixed ancestry from Tatasweyak Cree First Nation (Manitoba) & Red Rock Indian Band (Ontario) and Finnish & Acadian roots. She has a B.A. First Nations Studies and Anthropology joint major from the University of Northern British Columbia. Veronica currently lives, works and plays in the Lheidli T’enneh Territory (Prince George).  

She has worked in Community Development in Prince George and the North for over 17 years. Veronica is very passionate about her important roles in working and advocating for Indigenous Peoples in BC. She began my journey with the Indian Residential School Survivors Society as the Indian Day Scholar Coordinator in the Northwest & Northcentral Region. She is currently the Senior Manager of the Indian Residential School Survivors Society. 

Veronica is an intergenerational survivor. Her maternal grandmother and her siblings attended Day School in Ontario. She is a mother of six children (3 daughters & 3 sons), speaks three languages (English, Spanish, French) and is currently learning Nedut’en (Lake Babine), a Carrier language. Veronica shares that she is on a lifelong healing journey and continues to strengthen her emotional, physical, mental and spiritual well-being through the many traditional teachings and ceremonies she has been taught. She looks forward to the work that is ahead of us and helps where it is needed.