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 Donna Cona - News
Last September, Rima Aristocrat unveiled an $18,000 scholarship, named in honour of Mohawk Grand Chief Joe Norton of Kahnawake, which would be awarded annually to an aboriginal, Inuit or Métis student to pursue IT studies at Willis College.
Donna Cona (named after Iroquois chief, Donnacona, the first native leader to meet explorer Jacques Cartier in 1534) has signed up to be the first corporate partner of an unprecedented national program to train 1,000 aboriginal people from across Canada to become information technology professionals by 2005.
Called TeKnoWave and scheduled to be launched in Ottawa this fall, the initiative emerged from a scholarship recently established by the president and chief executive of Willis College of Business and Technology.
www.donnacona.com /news/Ottawa%20Citizen%20March%205%202002.htm   (659 words)

  
 Royal Bank Award for Canadian Achievement
Joe Norton (left), Grand Chief of the Kahnawake Mohawk Territory, and internationally renowned violinist Tara-Louise Montour (centre) also from Kahnawake, congratulate John Kim Bell on his award.
John Cleghorn (left), Chair and CEO of the Royal Bank of Canada and David Johnston (right), chair of the independent Royal Bank Award Selection Committee, present a cheque for $125,000 to John Kim Bell.
On Oct. 16 (1998) John Kim Bell, Founder and President of the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation, was awarded the Royal Bank Award for Canadian Achievement before 200 guests and well-wishers at a gala event in Toronto.
www.naaf.ca /royalbank.html   (659 words)

  
 Battle of Queenston Heights: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Battle of Queenston Heights
John Norton, a Mohawk chief allied with the British, attacked the Americans from the rear, and a second wave of Americans refused to cross the river to fight them.
Major-General Roger Sheaffe[?] took over after Brock was killed.
The British, however, succeeded in destroying their cannons before they were captured.
www.encyclopedian.com /ba/Battle-of-Queenston-Heights.html   (250 words)

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