Prince George, B.C. – The Cariboo Regional District is throwing its support behind an application for a quarter of a million dollar grant from the Northern Development Initiative Trust to go toward a cultural centre and museum project in the south Cariboo.

The CRD board endorsed a resolution to support the Northern Secwepemc Cultural Society’s application in the amount of $250,000 under the NDIT’s Economic Diversification Infrastructure Program. The proposed cultural centre and museum in the 108 Mile Ranch area would preserve, record and exhibit records and objects of educational, historical and cultural value of the Canim Lake, Canoe Creek, Esketemc, Soda Creek and Williams Lake First Nations.

The Society expects the centre to be a source of education and enjoyment for the general public and a source of economic and general benefit for the members of the participating First Nations and the local area.