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Help former kidnapped Canadian children return to Canada and resettle back in Canada along with their Canadian father from Peru.
Their high profile case has been profiled in the front page of the Globe and Mail and Guelph Mercury newspapers in 2007. Jeff was also on CTV Newsnet's The Verdict with Paula Todd and on CFRB Radio Mike Richards show with Guest host Michael Coren. The American network CNN Larry King show did a short blurb about the White father against Indian Tribe fighting for custody.
Canada´s national newspaper, the Globe and MAIL Front page headline.
¨Battle to wrest son and daughter from grandmother on reserve highlights clash of cultures between native and non-native Canadians¨
Jeff´s two children were legally kidnapped by the The Onigaming First Nation / Tribe, and some native agencies. This was done to try to force him to give co-legal custody to his ex mother in law after his late dearly departed native wife Yvonne died one year previously. She did not ask for the custody but the First Nation agency wanted her to have co legal custody. The band legally kidnapped the children a few days after the one year anniversary of his dearly departed Ojibway late wife´s death. The children were held hostage for over two years by the Onigaming First Nation / Tribe. They were returned to Jeff Geauvreau just over two years later after a firestorm of protest and media attention.
Their case made Canadian legal history in that the Judge put in Police enforcement provision´s in the Court order against the Onigaming First Nation, the Onigaming Family Services and Weech-it-te-win Family Services, the native child-welfare agency in order to assure the immediate return of the children to the father Jeff Geauvreau. These provisions have never been put in a court order against a Children's aid or Family Services before in Canada.
This was also done because previous settlement´s which were put in previous Court Orders to return the children to Jeff went unheeded, were not respected and were not honoured by the First Nation and First Nation Agencies. Before the children were returned motions were filed by Jeff´s lawyer to hold the First Nations agencies in contempt of court which was supported by the Office of the Children lawyer.
Jeff would like people to know that their was only some Onigaming First Nation people involved with his problem and most band members were supportive of Jeff. They did not understand or know about the whole problem. Jeff has a lot of respect for the Ojibway people and culture.
"This case is unlike any case I've ever had," said Michael Cupello, a Thunder Bay family lawyer who has represented parents in child-welfare cases for 15 years.
"It should have been a child custody proceeding. It should never have been a child protection proceeding."
Jeff Geauvreau had to leave Canada with his two children for Peru two years after he recovered his children from the Onigaming First nation / Tribe. He had been attacked, beat up and put in the hospital by some native men, two years after he got his children back because they were upset his children were with him and not on the Native Indian reserve and away from their culture. It appears that the men who attacked Jeff and put him in the hospital were extremist native elements from another reserve in Southern Ontario..
Jeff consulted with social workers and counselors and it was advised that moving to Peru for a period of time until things cooled down would be good for his children emotional well being and his physical safety. He had at that time a wife in Peru but unfortunately they were separated within a year of arriving and divorced after that.
Jeff and his children Hannah and Landen Jeffrey would like to return to Canada from Chiclayo , Peru and live in peace and harmony and rebuild their lives in Canada.
The reason for this fundraising campaign is to raise money so that Jeff and his children can return to Canada from Peru, to help pay for airfare, to help pay for a home to rent for a period of one year while the family gets on their feet, to help pay for the expensive counseling the children still need. To help purchase furniture, beds, appliances, and other necessities needed to furnish a home.
Hello, my name is Steve Cowan. My wife Penny and I have known Jeff Geauvreau for over 30 years and his children since they were born. He is a very good man who deserves a hand up. His children are very nice children who really love their Dad. They all have been to hell and back 100 times over.
Jeff and his children Hannah and Landen Jeffrey would like to return to Canada from Chiclayo , Peru and live in peace and harmony and rebuild their lives in Canada.
The reason for this fundraising campaign is to raise money so that Jeff and his children can return to Canada from Peru, to help pay for airfare, to help pay for a home to rent for a period of one year while the family gets on their feet, to help pay for the expensive counseling the children still need. To help purchase furniture, beds, appliances, and other necessities needed to furnish a home.
Hello, my name is Steve Cowan. My wife Penny and I have known Jeff Geauvreau for over 30 years and his children since they were born. He is a very good man who deserves a hand up. His children are very nice children who really love their Dad. They all have been to hell and back 100 times over.
Jeff and his children are huge Toronto Blue Jay baseball fans and Jeff has been a Blue Jay fan and Baseball fan for over 35 years.
All the money that is raised for Hannah, Landen Jeffrey and Jeff will be go directly to Jeff, Hannah and Landen Jeffrey. The money will be sent by GoFundme directly to Jeff Geauvreau, Canadian bank account. I have no access to any of the funds.
It has taken over 21 days to get this written properly and posted here in an organized manner. I felt that people deserve to know the full complete story before asking them to help Jeff, Hannah and Landen Jeffrey.
We are including detailed information, links and the media coverage on this story for people who are interested. Jeff did a 2 hour radio interview on May 26th/ 2014 and all the links are at the bottom of the page for you to read and listen.
Their story was featured in a long front page story by the late talented award winning Journalist Margaret Philp in Canada´s National Paper the Globe and Mail newspaper. This article started the outrage and support Jeff received for the return of his children to him and to reunite him with his children.
Their story was also included in the book ¨A Voice for Many¨http://www.carswell.com/product-detail/a-voice-for-many-margaret-philp-journalist/ . This book is a memorial to the career of journalist Margaret Philp and it is a collection of 130 articles of her articles.
Here are some excerpts below from the Front Page Globe and Mail article. This complete front page article and other articles are available to read at the links at the very bottom of this page.
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Globe and Mail article excerpts below
¨A white man struggles to reclaim his children¨Friday, May 11, 2007 MARGARET PHILP Globe and Mail , Page A1
¨Battle to wrest son and daughter from grandmother on reserve highlights clash of cultures between native and non-native Canadians¨
He always thought of himself as a doting father, a man who read bedtime stories to his two children every night before tucking them under the covers, who would delight in wrapping his arms around them in a bear hug. If not the picture-perfect father, he figured he was close enough. But the 45-year-old who now lives alone in a spare townhouse more than 1,000 kilometres from his children.
In the time since, he has fought for the return of children he insists were grabbed without grounds. He has been deadlocked in an unseemly battle for custody with the Onigaming First Nation in Northwestern Ontario, the native community where he and his wife had raised the children before her untimely death and the unravelling of their family.
It is a tangled case coloured by race, cultural biases and conflicting opinions about children's best interests. Jeff is a white man from Southern Ontario who married his Ojibway wife, the band's welfare administrator, in the mid-1990s before settling down in a house on the reserve where they lived for nine years until her sudden death from pancreatic failure in 2004.
That was when Jeff's troubles began. While his wife was sickly for years -- she had launched a wrongful dismissal suit against the band after she was fired for missing too much work -- her mother accused Jeff of murder. The police launched an investigation into the death that would ultimately clear him.
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All the money that is raised for Hannah, Landen Jeffrey and Jeff will be go directly to Jeff, Hannah and Landen Jeffrey. The money will be sent by GoFundme directly to Jeff Geauvreau, Canadian bank account. I have no access to any of the funds.
It has taken over 21 days to get this written properly and posted here in an organized manner. I felt that people deserve to know the full complete story before asking them to help Jeff, Hannah and Landen Jeffrey.
We are including detailed information, links and the media coverage on this story for people who are interested. Jeff did a 2 hour radio interview on May 26th/ 2014 and all the links are at the bottom of the page for you to read and listen.
Their story was featured in a long front page story by the late talented award winning Journalist Margaret Philp in Canada´s National Paper the Globe and Mail newspaper. This article started the outrage and support Jeff received for the return of his children to him and to reunite him with his children.
Their story was also included in the book ¨A Voice for Many¨http://www.carswell.com/product-detail/a-voice-for-many-margaret-philp-journalist/ . This book is a memorial to the career of journalist Margaret Philp and it is a collection of 130 articles of her articles.
Here are some excerpts below from the Front Page Globe and Mail article. This complete front page article and other articles are available to read at the links at the very bottom of this page.
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Globe and Mail article excerpts below
¨A white man struggles to reclaim his children¨Friday, May 11, 2007 MARGARET PHILP Globe and Mail , Page A1
¨Battle to wrest son and daughter from grandmother on reserve highlights clash of cultures between native and non-native Canadians¨
He always thought of himself as a doting father, a man who read bedtime stories to his two children every night before tucking them under the covers, who would delight in wrapping his arms around them in a bear hug. If not the picture-perfect father, he figured he was close enough. But the 45-year-old who now lives alone in a spare townhouse more than 1,000 kilometres from his children.
In the time since, he has fought for the return of children he insists were grabbed without grounds. He has been deadlocked in an unseemly battle for custody with the Onigaming First Nation in Northwestern Ontario, the native community where he and his wife had raised the children before her untimely death and the unravelling of their family.
It is a tangled case coloured by race, cultural biases and conflicting opinions about children's best interests. Jeff is a white man from Southern Ontario who married his Ojibway wife, the band's welfare administrator, in the mid-1990s before settling down in a house on the reserve where they lived for nine years until her sudden death from pancreatic failure in 2004.
That was when Jeff's troubles began. While his wife was sickly for years -- she had launched a wrongful dismissal suit against the band after she was fired for missing too much work -- her mother accused Jeff of murder. The police launched an investigation into the death that would ultimately clear him.
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Jeff was cleared and the investigation was closed within 12 hours.
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In the meantime, a nasty fight was ensuing over where the body would be buried, with the grieving husband insisting that his wife's wishes were to be buried in Mississauga in his family's cemetery plot and the band furiously demanding that she be buried on the reserve. He eventually relented.
"It was unbelievable," he said. "I couldn't have people physically fighting for the casket." As time passed, tensions mounted.
He started making plans to move to Southern Ontario to be near his parents and his sister's family, but had not left before protection workers stepped in and apprehended the children.
"As soon as my wife died, I didn't exist. Suddenly, I was the white man, the enemy. It was devastating. I had lived on reserve for about nine years. I had friends there. I knew a lot of people."
But almost two years later, the children remain with their grandmother under the aboriginal child-welfare policy that children be placed with relatives on the reserve, rather than in foster care with non-native strangers. In native culture, the it-takes-a-village philosophy holds sway, and bonds with community and family are equally sacrosanct.
And so, when a threat looms to remove children from their reserve, the native Indian band does not take it lightly. The trouble is, this time the threat has come from the children's own father.
To Jeff, his rights as a father have been trampled in an abuse of power.
But to George Simard, the issue is not so simple. The long-time executive director of Weech-it-te-win Family Services, the native child-welfare agency that supervises the band's child-protection workers, the best interests of native children -- even half-native -- are inextricably bound to aboriginal culture and can never be trumped by the rights of a parent.
He would like to see the father and grandmother share custody and legal status under a co-parenting arrangement, with the children spending summers on the reserve.
"I'm not necessarily offside with his aspirations. I've talked to Jeff any number of times, and yes, the community and himself are polarized. And my advice to him is: Why do the kids become a pawn in the struggle? Why can't you mutually raise them for their own mental health as opposed to one side winning over the other?"
"This case is unlike any case I've ever had," said Michael Cupello, a Thunder Bay family lawyer who has represented parents in child-welfare cases for 15 years.
"It should have been a child custody proceeding. It should never have been a child protection proceeding."
Globe and Mail article excerpts concluded.
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In October, 2006, in a conversation between George Simard and a family member of Jeff´s. Mr. Simard admitted that the children were probably being held hostage by the Onigaming First Nation to try to force Jeff to give up full custody. When asked what he was going to do about it. Mr. Simard responded with ¨I am not going to do anything¨; ¨This is a cultural and political fight that involves First Nation right´s to their children that I support¨ ; ¨For hundred´s of years the white man took our children, now the shoe is on the other foot¨.
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Here are some excerpts below from the first Guelph mercury article.
The Guelph Mercury Pubdate:July 03, 2007 Page: A1 City man, reserve in custody standoff; Resolution may come this week Byline/Source: ROB O'FLANAGAN MERCURY STAFF Dateline: GUELPH
A Guelph man, who is white, is at the centre of a tense child-protection case involving his two children and a First Nation community in northern Ontario.
The case has been profiled in the Globe and Mail and on CTV Newsnet's The Verdict. "This case is about the First Nation's rights versus my parental rights," Jeff said in and interview. "They seem to think they have precedence over me as the biological parent. This is pretty well all politically driven -- it's a political hijack. Our legal position is that the children are being held hostage."
"It's like one elder up there told me the other day," said Jeff, "the situation is like two trains going at each other at 100 miles an hour. The situation has been continuously escalating. They are doing everything in their power to keep the children on the reserve. What it all boils down to is, they don't want the kids leaving the reserve."
Soon after his wife's death, Jeff's troubles began. His mother-in-law, he said, accused him of killing his wife, an accusation that was investigated by police and found baseless. There was a fight over where Jeff's wife would be buried -- the husband's family plot or on the reserve. Jeff, who admits his relationship with his mother-in-law is not an amicable one, said in order to keep the peace he consented to bury his wife on the reserve.
As confusion, grief and conflict swirled around his life, Jeff said he decided it was time to leave the reserve. That, he said, is when Weech-it-te-win Family Services was called in by reserve officials
Since he was not a Onigaming First Nation band member, the reserve passed a resolution to evict Jeff from his reserve home and he has since been banned from setting foot on the reserve.
Guelph Mercury article excerpts paused.
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Jeff´s comment below.
´I was lucky to have the public support of one prominent Native lady named Mavis. Mavis Etienne is a Kanesatake Mohawk who figured prominently during the Canadian Oka crisis in 1990, acting as a negotiator and a calming influence for the community in the drawn-out talks to bring down the barricades.¨
Jeff´s comment concluded.
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Guelph mercury article excerpts below continued.
Mavis Etienne is a Mohawk woman living in Kanehsatake, Que. The head of clinical staff at an addiction treatment centre, she does not know Jeff. But after hearing about his case through the Aboriginal Ministries Council -- an organization that acts on behalf of aboriginal Christian groups -- she came out in support of him, championing his cause against the reserve. She wrote a letter of support which was entered into the child-protection proceedings.
"Obviously these children are being held hostage," she said in a telephone interview. "Their mother died and now they are depriving them of their daddy, citing that they would lose their culture because he is a non-native. I feel that is a very racist attitude. Creator God gave the children to him, not to the community.
"I think the stance they are taking now will make those children not even want to be proud of being Ojibway," she added. "They are making it harder for them to choose to celebrate who they are as native." Etienne said it is up to a parent to decide how to nurture a child's identity, and the decision to encourage and preserve the children's native identity is not one for the community to make.
"It's up to the parent to nurture them and help them grow, that they become proud of who they are on both sides. The parents' rights supercede the rights of the community," she said
Simard said that in the interests of the children, there is a need for the process to become less adversarial. "This is a blended family issue, in which one party is native, the other non-native," he said, admitting that such cases are fairly frequent and complex. "In my opinion it doesn't have to be adversarial. Why not raise these children together in an environment of unity?" Simard said Jeff has shown a willingness to work to maintain the native identity of his children.
For his part, Jeff said he will not accept a joint custody resolution to the problem, but will guarantee his children's native identity is fostered.
Guelph Mercury article excerpts concluded
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CTV the verdict with Paula Todd , Thursday May 31, 2007. 9.20 pm - 9. 45 pm with guests Jeff Geauvreau, Kenn Richard ( Executive Director of the Toronto Native Family Services ) and a Human Rights professor.
Here are the Executive Director Kenn Richard of the Toronto Native Family Services remarks on the TV talk show.
The video includes comments made by Mr. Kenn Richard.
"The father(Jeff) is the threat in this case because he wants to remove the children from the Reserve and culture"; "First Nations rights come before his parental rights"; " If he wants his kids he will have to move to the Reserve".
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Mr Richard also made comments about Jeff being a white man and the children needing to stay with their native culture.
What does Jeff being a White man and a Christian have to do with him being a good father to his children ? This sounds very racist.
The Onigaming First Nation, the Onigaming Family Services and the Weech-it-te-win Family Services, the native child-welfare agency had argued that the children are not Christian and should not be exposed to Christian teaching. The children have been and are Christian.
The Onigaming First Nation, the Onigaming Family Services and Weech-it-te-win Family Services, the native child-welfare agency in Court had also rejected the glowing home study and assessment done on Jeff and his residence by the Guelph Children´s aid. They argued that the Guelph Children´s aid was biased in Jeff´s favor because he was a White man and they are a non-native Children´s aid.
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Here are some points below made by an advisor to Jeff in an email about Kenn Richards comments in the TV interview.
Hey Jeff, thanks for the e-mail. I wasn't able to watch the show, but I did catch the clip online. Boy, what a ridiculous situation this is. By the standards set out by Kenn Richard and that other Human Rights professor, I ought to sue my parents from removing me from my culture when I was a kid. My family was born in communist-era Romania and both my parents fled the country in the early 80s and moved to Canada. They went by themselves because it was too dangerous to travel together as there was a risk you would be executed if you were found to be fleeing. I joined them in Canada a year later. I was only 6 years old. I came to a new country with a new culture and a new language.
By Kenn Richards standards, however, I should have been left in Romania to grow up with my culture and then when I reached the age of majority, I could choose to do whatever. What a crock of rubbish! My parents fled Romania and uprooted me from that culture so that I could have a better life. And what fantastic opportunities I have had here in Canada! If it weren't for their courage, I would be living in what is one of the poorest countries in Europe. Therefore, I would encourage you to keep fighting.
From what we have heard , the conditions on the reserve are deplorable and your two children of a different sex are sharing a small bedroom.
Cultural rights never trump parental rights and, moreover, cultural rights should never trump the opportunity to live a better life.
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Here is an email, Jeff received from a Toronto CFRB 1010 listener after his one hour radio interview. He was interviewed by Michael Coren.
Jeff,
I just finished listening to your 1 hour interview with Michael Coren on CFRB radio. I share Michael’s incredulity that this has happened – and is continuing to happen to you and your children. I also read the Globe & Mail article concerning your plight and that of your children.
Being the father of a 10-year-old daughter myself, I cannot express how much I sympathize with you. I will write to my MP and MPP about your situation to urge them to do SOMETHING. I wish you the best of luck at your hearing on the 30th.
Best wishes to you and your two children.
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Comments from Jeff below.
One month before we going to court for the last time , I finally received my police record check which showed I had no criminal record. My lawyer had asked additionally asked for any Police reports involving me.
We got one report that clearly stated the following.
The Police had received a call from a Onigaming Family Services and Weech-it-te-win Family Services worker in July 2005 saying that I had apprehended and kidnapped my children and had left the reserve with my children.
The Onigaming Family Services and Weech-it-te-win Family Services worker further stated that my children were wards of the Onigaming Family Services and Weech-it-te-win Family Services. He asked that I be located along with my children and for my children to be returned to the reserve by police agencies across Canada and the USA. The US customs and Immigration´s was called by the Onigaming Family Services and Weech-it-te-win Family Services worker and told to stop and arrest me for kidnapping and to prevent me from leaving Canada with my children.
The report ends that within a few hours the police had ascertained that I was the legal guardian and sole parent and the children were in my legal custody and no crimes had been committed. The Onigaming Family Services and Weech-it-te-win Family Services, worker admits to an officer in the report a few hours after the original call that the children were not wards of the Onigaming Family Services and Weech-it-te-win Family Services. He had lied to the police. Within a few hour´s the children were taken and legally kidnapped.
Jeff´s comment´s concluded.
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A year after his children were taken. Jeff was told by a senior band official that the Political leadership ( Chief and Council ) of the Onigaming First Nation / Tribe had ordered the Onigaming First Nation Family Services child care workers not to let his children leave the Indian reserve. The senior official was present and witnessed the decision by Onigaming First Nation Chief and council. One of the council members was the Manager of Onigaming First Nation Family Services also at the time. This was a political decision that was tantamount to ordering a kidnapping of his children.
Also Jeff´s, Yvonne´s, Hannah´s and Landen Jeffrey two family Doctor´s who saw Jeff and his family on a nearly weekly basis for over five years came out in support of Jeff. Dr. Peter Harland and Dr. S Pedersen of Kenora wrote support letter´s where they praised Jeff ability as a father and a parent. They did not see any signs that Jeff was depressed. They further stated that did not see any sign the children were neglected in any way. These letter´s were ignored by the Native children´s aid and the First nation.
The doctors were never contacted or asked for their professional opinion by the Native children´s aid. These were two outstanding doctor´s that saw Jeff and his children on a weekly basis after his wife´s death. Jeff would drop in and visit and talk with them when they visited the Onigaming First Nation for a half a day two times a week up to a few days before they were kidnapped by the Onigaming First Nation, the Onigaming Family Services and Weech-it-te-win Family Services, the native child-welfare agency´s.
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Jeff´s comment´s below
It is my belief that my plans to remove my children from their reserve and I and move to Toronto, Ont caused the Onigaming First Nation to panic and to apprehend them and kidnap them. They kidnapped my children and held them hostage for over two years while trying to force me all the time to give co legal custody to my ex mother in law even though she never asked for the co legal custody.
If I had agreed, I would have my children back within weeks and not over two years. That was then and is now blackmail in my opinion.
Our story was edited and cut down in Newspapers and did not include anything in detail about that after my wife's death that the band and ex mother in law and the Onigaming First Nation / Tribe accused me of murder and called the police for a criminal investigation to try to force me to bury my late wife Yvonne on the reserve. It worked and I buried my late dearly loved and departed Ojiway wife on the Onigaming First Nation.
Police were also worried that my children may possibly kidnapped to force me to bury my wife on the reserve. This was documented. My children and I were under police guard for about a week.
A day after the investigation was complete I was sitting on my porch watching my children across the road ride their bikes. When my four year old son ( two weeks shy of his Fifth birthday ) was riding his bike he went around the corner of the outdoor ice rink boards. I could still see him but I noticed that the police car that had been sitting to my right suddenly started up and moved forward and stopped when it seemed he could see my son again.
I though am I seeing things or is my imagination leaping to conclusions. I walked off my porch and walked to the Police car and talked to the officer. I told him what I saw and thought. He said yes Jeff we are worried that someone from the first nation or other native people may try to kidnap your children to force you to bury your wife here on the reserve. Wow, I was thunderstruck and shocked.
My wife was buried under a heavy police presence because of threats to steal her casket and bury it on reserve. My wife's casket was also under 24 hour police guard at green funeral home in fort Frances by order of the chief medical examiner (Dr. M. E. Spencer ) so my wife's remains would be protected. She called me and told me to cancel the funeral as she was confiscating Yvonne´s body for her remains protection. I begged her to let us proceed and she relented. My late Ojibway wife's funeral was held under the looming presence of a police contingent sent to keep the peace.
If they would go as far to accuse me of murder to force me to bury my late wife on the reserve. What would they do to keep my children on the Onigaming First Nation Indian reserve ? My children and I found out the hard way what they would do.
Jeff´s comments concluded.
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There was an article in the Kenora Daily Miner and News about Yvonne and Jeff in May , 1999. It was titled to the best of Jeff´s memory¨ Kenora area woman airlifted to Mayo Clinic. ¨ We are going to try and obtain this article.
In April , 1999 Jeff´s late wife Ojibway Yvonne was hospitalized in Fort Frances Hospital for three weeks because she was losing weight during her pregnancy. In early May, Jeff received a early morning emergency phone call from their family Doctor, Dr. Nancy Naylor who now practices outside London in Ilderton, Ontario.
She told Jeff that his wife had liver failure and only hours to live. Arrangements were made to try to airlift Yvonne to Toronto, London or Ottawa which were Ontario tertiary care center´s or Winnipeg Manitoba tertiary care center. This was taking too long and it was believed by Dr. Naylor and specialists that Yvonne would not live long enough to reach those hospitals.
Dr Naylor made the brave and decisive decision without prior approval to airlift Yvonne to the Duluth Hospital where she only remained for a few hours. In Yvonne word´s as remembered by Jeff. ¨The doctor´s told me I needed the best care in the world. One Doctor told me if you were my daughter. I would send you to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester , Minnesota.¨ Soon a huge Mayo clinic helicopter staffed with medical personal picked up Yvonne and raced back to the Mayo Clinic to try to save her life and the life of her unborn baby boy. Yvonne had a rare disorder called fatty liver due to pregnancy.
Jeff raced through the night with his good friend Ron Jack at his side as they drove for 12 hours to make it to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota. They got pulled over 4 times for speeding but when the Police heard the story they told them to get going. When Ron Jack and Jeff reached the International Falls, Mn border crossing. The custom officer did not even ask for any ID or any questions. He said Duluth hospital called with your plate number at your wife's request and said they are airlifting her to the Mayo. He then told us to get going.
Yvonne spent nearly three weeks at the Mayo clinic and they were able to save her life and her baby life through advanced medical treatment. She spent the time in a private room just next door to the room where the late King of Jordan had stayed for his liver treatment months earlier.
Yvonne had severe Meniere´s disease for nearly nine years which made her vomit up to 15 times a day from extreme dizziness and left her bed ridden for days and sometimes weeks at a time. She also had diabetes , high blood pressure and had Bell´s Palsy that paralysed half her face for six months, two years before she passed away. Ten month´s before she passed away she was fired and dismissed from her position as Social services Administrator at Onigaming First Nation due to her missing so much work due to her ill health. During all her afflictions, Jeff stood by her and provided for and took care of her and their children. He balanced work, taking care of their children and his ill wife for many years.
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As mentioned Jeff and his children are presently still in Chiclayo, Peru and hoping to come back to Canada soon to rebuild their lives here. Jeff and his children have been in Peru on visitor visa´s and Jeff can´t legally work there.
Jeff´s children are now both young teenagers and doing well but need to return to Canada to complete their education in a Canadian school. They are both book worms who got their love of books from their father and both have a University level of reading comprehension.
Hannah would like to attend university and become a teacher in the future. She would like to return sometime and volunteer with an NGO and help some native people in the highlands and jungles of Peru.
Landen Jeffrey is a self taught computer whiz who would like to attend University and become a computer programmer in the future. He loves animals and would love to have a dog.
Jeff has been working online by vonage and skype with some Canadian and American companies from Peru until last fall when his laptop gave up the ghost.
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Here are some final words from Jeff.
¨I want my children to be proud of who they are. I want them to be proud of being native and non native. I want them to embrace their native heritage and learn more about the Ojibway language and culture¨.
¨I want the best for my children. I want us to be able to return to from our long extended visit in Peru and return to Canada. To be able to live in peace and harmony and have no problems with the native community in Canada. ¨
¨I take full Responsibility for not moving my children off the Onigaming First Nation reserve fast after my late wife passed away. It was a mistake that I made that I have to live with. It was hard for us to leave quickly because my late wife and my children´s mother was buried there. ¨
¨We loved Yvonne very much. We were grieving and we very devastated at losing her. You can´t imagine the pain you feel seeing your children grieve and cry for their mommy. My very young son at the time tried to climb into his mother´s casket to give her a kiss goodbye.¨
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First of all, Jeff would like people to know that their was only some Onigaming First Nation people involved with his problem and many band members were supportive of Jeff. Jeff has a lot of respect for the Ojibway people and culture.
Why is Jeff looking at going public again and in the media eye ? It is to make sure all Native people know that he is trying to bring reconciliation and healing to their conflict with the Onigaming First Nation band and the Native community. He does not want to have looking over his shoulder and he does want his children be looking over their shoulders when they come back to Canada or to have his children be nervous or afraid of the Onigaming First Nation and the native community.
To achieve this, Jeff would like the people responsible and involved to take responsibility for their action´s and apologize to Jeff and his children in a dual Christian / Ojibway healing and forgiveness Ceremony. He would like to see this take place under the Guidance and wisdom of The Ojibway Elder and Traditional Ojibway Healer, Mr Gilbert Smith who presided over his late wife funeral and a Christian advisor and advocate.
Jeff, would welcome healthy and positive input from any other person, Christian or other denomination clergy or native person to help bring healing, forgiveness, reconciliation and peace to his children, Onigaming First Nation, Onigaming First Nation band members, his ex mother in law, Jeff´s family, his late wife´s Yvonne family, Native people across Canada, the Onigaming Family Services and Weech-it-te-win Family Services, the two native child-welfare agency´s involved and himself.
He can be contacted at the following email address. [email redacted] or [email redacted]
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The reason for this fundraising is to raise money so that Jeff and his children can return to Canada from Peru, to help pay for airfare, to help pay for a home to rent for a period of one year while the family gets on their feet, to help pay for the expensive counseling the children still need and PAS. To help purchase furniture, beds, appliances, TV, a computer and other necessities needed to furnish a home. To help purchase new clothes, boots, shoes for the family especially for fall and winter and other basic necessities. Jeff sold everything before they came to Peru and the family will be starting from nothing when they return.
One of Jeff´s big wishes in the future is to be able to take his children to Disney world in Florida because his late wife Yvonne always wanted to bring their children their in the future and it was where they spent their honeymoon together. She talked about taking them their when they got older when she was alive.
If you have any questions or want to make a non monetary donation, please feel free to contact Jeff at [email redacted] or [email redacted]
Fix Cas is an organization that aims to reform the Children's Aid Societies in the province of Ontario. The hyper link is safe and virus free.
Click the link below.
Indians Steal Baby from White Man 12may2007
The front page article about them that the late Margaret Philp wrote for The Globe and mail and the two article´s that the Guelph Mercury wrote are in the link below.
http://www.fixcas.com/cgi-bin/go.py?2007c.May12a
Five posts down in the link below the front page Globe and Mail story was posted on the Canada Court Watch news website.
http://www.freeforum101.com/canadacourtwatc/viewtopic.php?t=34&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=20&mforum=canadacourtwatc
Jeff did a radio interview on Monday night, May 26/2014 from 7 pm to 9 pm Pst and here is the link to listen to the 2 hour interview of Jeff on demand. It starts at the 1 minute mark.
https://soundcloud.com/gentlemansforum/sets/interview-with-jeff-geauvreau
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In the meantime, a nasty fight was ensuing over where the body would be buried, with the grieving husband insisting that his wife's wishes were to be buried in Mississauga in his family's cemetery plot and the band furiously demanding that she be buried on the reserve. He eventually relented.
"It was unbelievable," he said. "I couldn't have people physically fighting for the casket." As time passed, tensions mounted.
He started making plans to move to Southern Ontario to be near his parents and his sister's family, but had not left before protection workers stepped in and apprehended the children.
"As soon as my wife died, I didn't exist. Suddenly, I was the white man, the enemy. It was devastating. I had lived on reserve for about nine years. I had friends there. I knew a lot of people."
But almost two years later, the children remain with their grandmother under the aboriginal child-welfare policy that children be placed with relatives on the reserve, rather than in foster care with non-native strangers. In native culture, the it-takes-a-village philosophy holds sway, and bonds with community and family are equally sacrosanct.
And so, when a threat looms to remove children from their reserve, the native Indian band does not take it lightly. The trouble is, this time the threat has come from the children's own father.
To Jeff, his rights as a father have been trampled in an abuse of power.
But to George Simard, the issue is not so simple. The long-time executive director of Weech-it-te-win Family Services, the native child-welfare agency that supervises the band's child-protection workers, the best interests of native children -- even half-native -- are inextricably bound to aboriginal culture and can never be trumped by the rights of a parent.
He would like to see the father and grandmother share custody and legal status under a co-parenting arrangement, with the children spending summers on the reserve.
"I'm not necessarily offside with his aspirations. I've talked to Jeff any number of times, and yes, the community and himself are polarized. And my advice to him is: Why do the kids become a pawn in the struggle? Why can't you mutually raise them for their own mental health as opposed to one side winning over the other?"
"This case is unlike any case I've ever had," said Michael Cupello, a Thunder Bay family lawyer who has represented parents in child-welfare cases for 15 years.
"It should have been a child custody proceeding. It should never have been a child protection proceeding."
Globe and Mail article excerpts concluded.
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In October, 2006, in a conversation between George Simard and a family member of Jeff´s. Mr. Simard admitted that the children were probably being held hostage by the Onigaming First Nation to try to force Jeff to give up full custody. When asked what he was going to do about it. Mr. Simard responded with ¨I am not going to do anything¨; ¨This is a cultural and political fight that involves First Nation right´s to their children that I support¨ ; ¨For hundred´s of years the white man took our children, now the shoe is on the other foot¨.
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Here are some excerpts below from the first Guelph mercury article.
The Guelph Mercury Pubdate:July 03, 2007 Page: A1 City man, reserve in custody standoff; Resolution may come this week Byline/Source: ROB O'FLANAGAN MERCURY STAFF Dateline: GUELPH
A Guelph man, who is white, is at the centre of a tense child-protection case involving his two children and a First Nation community in northern Ontario.
The case has been profiled in the Globe and Mail and on CTV Newsnet's The Verdict. "This case is about the First Nation's rights versus my parental rights," Jeff said in and interview. "They seem to think they have precedence over me as the biological parent. This is pretty well all politically driven -- it's a political hijack. Our legal position is that the children are being held hostage."
"It's like one elder up there told me the other day," said Jeff, "the situation is like two trains going at each other at 100 miles an hour. The situation has been continuously escalating. They are doing everything in their power to keep the children on the reserve. What it all boils down to is, they don't want the kids leaving the reserve."
Soon after his wife's death, Jeff's troubles began. His mother-in-law, he said, accused him of killing his wife, an accusation that was investigated by police and found baseless. There was a fight over where Jeff's wife would be buried -- the husband's family plot or on the reserve. Jeff, who admits his relationship with his mother-in-law is not an amicable one, said in order to keep the peace he consented to bury his wife on the reserve.
As confusion, grief and conflict swirled around his life, Jeff said he decided it was time to leave the reserve. That, he said, is when Weech-it-te-win Family Services was called in by reserve officials
Since he was not a Onigaming First Nation band member, the reserve passed a resolution to evict Jeff from his reserve home and he has since been banned from setting foot on the reserve.
Guelph Mercury article excerpts paused.
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Jeff´s comment below.
´I was lucky to have the public support of one prominent Native lady named Mavis. Mavis Etienne is a Kanesatake Mohawk who figured prominently during the Canadian Oka crisis in 1990, acting as a negotiator and a calming influence for the community in the drawn-out talks to bring down the barricades.¨
Jeff´s comment concluded.
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Guelph mercury article excerpts below continued.
Mavis Etienne is a Mohawk woman living in Kanehsatake, Que. The head of clinical staff at an addiction treatment centre, she does not know Jeff. But after hearing about his case through the Aboriginal Ministries Council -- an organization that acts on behalf of aboriginal Christian groups -- she came out in support of him, championing his cause against the reserve. She wrote a letter of support which was entered into the child-protection proceedings.
"Obviously these children are being held hostage," she said in a telephone interview. "Their mother died and now they are depriving them of their daddy, citing that they would lose their culture because he is a non-native. I feel that is a very racist attitude. Creator God gave the children to him, not to the community.
"I think the stance they are taking now will make those children not even want to be proud of being Ojibway," she added. "They are making it harder for them to choose to celebrate who they are as native." Etienne said it is up to a parent to decide how to nurture a child's identity, and the decision to encourage and preserve the children's native identity is not one for the community to make.
"It's up to the parent to nurture them and help them grow, that they become proud of who they are on both sides. The parents' rights supercede the rights of the community," she said
Simard said that in the interests of the children, there is a need for the process to become less adversarial. "This is a blended family issue, in which one party is native, the other non-native," he said, admitting that such cases are fairly frequent and complex. "In my opinion it doesn't have to be adversarial. Why not raise these children together in an environment of unity?" Simard said Jeff has shown a willingness to work to maintain the native identity of his children.
For his part, Jeff said he will not accept a joint custody resolution to the problem, but will guarantee his children's native identity is fostered.
Guelph Mercury article excerpts concluded
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CTV the verdict with Paula Todd , Thursday May 31, 2007. 9.20 pm - 9. 45 pm with guests Jeff Geauvreau, Kenn Richard ( Executive Director of the Toronto Native Family Services ) and a Human Rights professor.
Here are the Executive Director Kenn Richard of the Toronto Native Family Services remarks on the TV talk show.
The video includes comments made by Mr. Kenn Richard.
"The father(Jeff) is the threat in this case because he wants to remove the children from the Reserve and culture"; "First Nations rights come before his parental rights"; " If he wants his kids he will have to move to the Reserve".
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Mr Richard also made comments about Jeff being a white man and the children needing to stay with their native culture.
What does Jeff being a White man and a Christian have to do with him being a good father to his children ? This sounds very racist.
The Onigaming First Nation, the Onigaming Family Services and the Weech-it-te-win Family Services, the native child-welfare agency had argued that the children are not Christian and should not be exposed to Christian teaching. The children have been and are Christian.
The Onigaming First Nation, the Onigaming Family Services and Weech-it-te-win Family Services, the native child-welfare agency in Court had also rejected the glowing home study and assessment done on Jeff and his residence by the Guelph Children´s aid. They argued that the Guelph Children´s aid was biased in Jeff´s favor because he was a White man and they are a non-native Children´s aid.
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Here are some points below made by an advisor to Jeff in an email about Kenn Richards comments in the TV interview.
Hey Jeff, thanks for the e-mail. I wasn't able to watch the show, but I did catch the clip online. Boy, what a ridiculous situation this is. By the standards set out by Kenn Richard and that other Human Rights professor, I ought to sue my parents from removing me from my culture when I was a kid. My family was born in communist-era Romania and both my parents fled the country in the early 80s and moved to Canada. They went by themselves because it was too dangerous to travel together as there was a risk you would be executed if you were found to be fleeing. I joined them in Canada a year later. I was only 6 years old. I came to a new country with a new culture and a new language.
By Kenn Richards standards, however, I should have been left in Romania to grow up with my culture and then when I reached the age of majority, I could choose to do whatever. What a crock of rubbish! My parents fled Romania and uprooted me from that culture so that I could have a better life. And what fantastic opportunities I have had here in Canada! If it weren't for their courage, I would be living in what is one of the poorest countries in Europe. Therefore, I would encourage you to keep fighting.
From what we have heard , the conditions on the reserve are deplorable and your two children of a different sex are sharing a small bedroom.
Cultural rights never trump parental rights and, moreover, cultural rights should never trump the opportunity to live a better life.
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Here is an email, Jeff received from a Toronto CFRB 1010 listener after his one hour radio interview. He was interviewed by Michael Coren.
Jeff,
I just finished listening to your 1 hour interview with Michael Coren on CFRB radio. I share Michael’s incredulity that this has happened – and is continuing to happen to you and your children. I also read the Globe & Mail article concerning your plight and that of your children.
Being the father of a 10-year-old daughter myself, I cannot express how much I sympathize with you. I will write to my MP and MPP about your situation to urge them to do SOMETHING. I wish you the best of luck at your hearing on the 30th.
Best wishes to you and your two children.
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Comments from Jeff below.
One month before we going to court for the last time , I finally received my police record check which showed I had no criminal record. My lawyer had asked additionally asked for any Police reports involving me.
We got one report that clearly stated the following.
The Police had received a call from a Onigaming Family Services and Weech-it-te-win Family Services worker in July 2005 saying that I had apprehended and kidnapped my children and had left the reserve with my children.
The Onigaming Family Services and Weech-it-te-win Family Services worker further stated that my children were wards of the Onigaming Family Services and Weech-it-te-win Family Services. He asked that I be located along with my children and for my children to be returned to the reserve by police agencies across Canada and the USA. The US customs and Immigration´s was called by the Onigaming Family Services and Weech-it-te-win Family Services worker and told to stop and arrest me for kidnapping and to prevent me from leaving Canada with my children.
The report ends that within a few hours the police had ascertained that I was the legal guardian and sole parent and the children were in my legal custody and no crimes had been committed. The Onigaming Family Services and Weech-it-te-win Family Services, worker admits to an officer in the report a few hours after the original call that the children were not wards of the Onigaming Family Services and Weech-it-te-win Family Services. He had lied to the police. Within a few hour´s the children were taken and legally kidnapped.
Jeff´s comment´s concluded.
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A year after his children were taken. Jeff was told by a senior band official that the Political leadership ( Chief and Council ) of the Onigaming First Nation / Tribe had ordered the Onigaming First Nation Family Services child care workers not to let his children leave the Indian reserve. The senior official was present and witnessed the decision by Onigaming First Nation Chief and council. One of the council members was the Manager of Onigaming First Nation Family Services also at the time. This was a political decision that was tantamount to ordering a kidnapping of his children.
Also Jeff´s, Yvonne´s, Hannah´s and Landen Jeffrey two family Doctor´s who saw Jeff and his family on a nearly weekly basis for over five years came out in support of Jeff. Dr. Peter Harland and Dr. S Pedersen of Kenora wrote support letter´s where they praised Jeff ability as a father and a parent. They did not see any signs that Jeff was depressed. They further stated that did not see any sign the children were neglected in any way. These letter´s were ignored by the Native children´s aid and the First nation.
The doctors were never contacted or asked for their professional opinion by the Native children´s aid. These were two outstanding doctor´s that saw Jeff and his children on a weekly basis after his wife´s death. Jeff would drop in and visit and talk with them when they visited the Onigaming First Nation for a half a day two times a week up to a few days before they were kidnapped by the Onigaming First Nation, the Onigaming Family Services and Weech-it-te-win Family Services, the native child-welfare agency´s.
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Jeff´s comment´s below
It is my belief that my plans to remove my children from their reserve and I and move to Toronto, Ont caused the Onigaming First Nation to panic and to apprehend them and kidnap them. They kidnapped my children and held them hostage for over two years while trying to force me all the time to give co legal custody to my ex mother in law even though she never asked for the co legal custody.
If I had agreed, I would have my children back within weeks and not over two years. That was then and is now blackmail in my opinion.
Our story was edited and cut down in Newspapers and did not include anything in detail about that after my wife's death that the band and ex mother in law and the Onigaming First Nation / Tribe accused me of murder and called the police for a criminal investigation to try to force me to bury my late wife Yvonne on the reserve. It worked and I buried my late dearly loved and departed Ojiway wife on the Onigaming First Nation.
Police were also worried that my children may possibly kidnapped to force me to bury my wife on the reserve. This was documented. My children and I were under police guard for about a week.
A day after the investigation was complete I was sitting on my porch watching my children across the road ride their bikes. When my four year old son ( two weeks shy of his Fifth birthday ) was riding his bike he went around the corner of the outdoor ice rink boards. I could still see him but I noticed that the police car that had been sitting to my right suddenly started up and moved forward and stopped when it seemed he could see my son again.
I though am I seeing things or is my imagination leaping to conclusions. I walked off my porch and walked to the Police car and talked to the officer. I told him what I saw and thought. He said yes Jeff we are worried that someone from the first nation or other native people may try to kidnap your children to force you to bury your wife here on the reserve. Wow, I was thunderstruck and shocked.
My wife was buried under a heavy police presence because of threats to steal her casket and bury it on reserve. My wife's casket was also under 24 hour police guard at green funeral home in fort Frances by order of the chief medical examiner (Dr. M. E. Spencer ) so my wife's remains would be protected. She called me and told me to cancel the funeral as she was confiscating Yvonne´s body for her remains protection. I begged her to let us proceed and she relented. My late Ojibway wife's funeral was held under the looming presence of a police contingent sent to keep the peace.
If they would go as far to accuse me of murder to force me to bury my late wife on the reserve. What would they do to keep my children on the Onigaming First Nation Indian reserve ? My children and I found out the hard way what they would do.
Jeff´s comments concluded.
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There was an article in the Kenora Daily Miner and News about Yvonne and Jeff in May , 1999. It was titled to the best of Jeff´s memory¨ Kenora area woman airlifted to Mayo Clinic. ¨ We are going to try and obtain this article.
In April , 1999 Jeff´s late wife Ojibway Yvonne was hospitalized in Fort Frances Hospital for three weeks because she was losing weight during her pregnancy. In early May, Jeff received a early morning emergency phone call from their family Doctor, Dr. Nancy Naylor who now practices outside London in Ilderton, Ontario.
She told Jeff that his wife had liver failure and only hours to live. Arrangements were made to try to airlift Yvonne to Toronto, London or Ottawa which were Ontario tertiary care center´s or Winnipeg Manitoba tertiary care center. This was taking too long and it was believed by Dr. Naylor and specialists that Yvonne would not live long enough to reach those hospitals.
Dr Naylor made the brave and decisive decision without prior approval to airlift Yvonne to the Duluth Hospital where she only remained for a few hours. In Yvonne word´s as remembered by Jeff. ¨The doctor´s told me I needed the best care in the world. One Doctor told me if you were my daughter. I would send you to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester , Minnesota.¨ Soon a huge Mayo clinic helicopter staffed with medical personal picked up Yvonne and raced back to the Mayo Clinic to try to save her life and the life of her unborn baby boy. Yvonne had a rare disorder called fatty liver due to pregnancy.
Jeff raced through the night with his good friend Ron Jack at his side as they drove for 12 hours to make it to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota. They got pulled over 4 times for speeding but when the Police heard the story they told them to get going. When Ron Jack and Jeff reached the International Falls, Mn border crossing. The custom officer did not even ask for any ID or any questions. He said Duluth hospital called with your plate number at your wife's request and said they are airlifting her to the Mayo. He then told us to get going.
Yvonne spent nearly three weeks at the Mayo clinic and they were able to save her life and her baby life through advanced medical treatment. She spent the time in a private room just next door to the room where the late King of Jordan had stayed for his liver treatment months earlier.
Yvonne had severe Meniere´s disease for nearly nine years which made her vomit up to 15 times a day from extreme dizziness and left her bed ridden for days and sometimes weeks at a time. She also had diabetes , high blood pressure and had Bell´s Palsy that paralysed half her face for six months, two years before she passed away. Ten month´s before she passed away she was fired and dismissed from her position as Social services Administrator at Onigaming First Nation due to her missing so much work due to her ill health. During all her afflictions, Jeff stood by her and provided for and took care of her and their children. He balanced work, taking care of their children and his ill wife for many years.
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As mentioned Jeff and his children are presently still in Chiclayo, Peru and hoping to come back to Canada soon to rebuild their lives here. Jeff and his children have been in Peru on visitor visa´s and Jeff can´t legally work there.
Jeff´s children are now both young teenagers and doing well but need to return to Canada to complete their education in a Canadian school. They are both book worms who got their love of books from their father and both have a University level of reading comprehension.
Hannah would like to attend university and become a teacher in the future. She would like to return sometime and volunteer with an NGO and help some native people in the highlands and jungles of Peru.
Landen Jeffrey is a self taught computer whiz who would like to attend University and become a computer programmer in the future. He loves animals and would love to have a dog.
Jeff has been working online by vonage and skype with some Canadian and American companies from Peru until last fall when his laptop gave up the ghost.
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Here are some final words from Jeff.
¨I want my children to be proud of who they are. I want them to be proud of being native and non native. I want them to embrace their native heritage and learn more about the Ojibway language and culture¨.
¨I want the best for my children. I want us to be able to return to from our long extended visit in Peru and return to Canada. To be able to live in peace and harmony and have no problems with the native community in Canada. ¨
¨I take full Responsibility for not moving my children off the Onigaming First Nation reserve fast after my late wife passed away. It was a mistake that I made that I have to live with. It was hard for us to leave quickly because my late wife and my children´s mother was buried there. ¨
¨We loved Yvonne very much. We were grieving and we very devastated at losing her. You can´t imagine the pain you feel seeing your children grieve and cry for their mommy. My very young son at the time tried to climb into his mother´s casket to give her a kiss goodbye.¨
Jeff comment´s concluded
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First of all, Jeff would like people to know that their was only some Onigaming First Nation people involved with his problem and many band members were supportive of Jeff. Jeff has a lot of respect for the Ojibway people and culture.
Why is Jeff looking at going public again and in the media eye ? It is to make sure all Native people know that he is trying to bring reconciliation and healing to their conflict with the Onigaming First Nation band and the Native community. He does not want to have looking over his shoulder and he does want his children be looking over their shoulders when they come back to Canada or to have his children be nervous or afraid of the Onigaming First Nation and the native community.
To achieve this, Jeff would like the people responsible and involved to take responsibility for their action´s and apologize to Jeff and his children in a dual Christian / Ojibway healing and forgiveness Ceremony. He would like to see this take place under the Guidance and wisdom of The Ojibway Elder and Traditional Ojibway Healer, Mr Gilbert Smith who presided over his late wife funeral and a Christian advisor and advocate.
Jeff, would welcome healthy and positive input from any other person, Christian or other denomination clergy or native person to help bring healing, forgiveness, reconciliation and peace to his children, Onigaming First Nation, Onigaming First Nation band members, his ex mother in law, Jeff´s family, his late wife´s Yvonne family, Native people across Canada, the Onigaming Family Services and Weech-it-te-win Family Services, the two native child-welfare agency´s involved and himself.
He can be contacted at the following email address. [email redacted] or [email redacted]
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The reason for this fundraising is to raise money so that Jeff and his children can return to Canada from Peru, to help pay for airfare, to help pay for a home to rent for a period of one year while the family gets on their feet, to help pay for the expensive counseling the children still need and PAS. To help purchase furniture, beds, appliances, TV, a computer and other necessities needed to furnish a home. To help purchase new clothes, boots, shoes for the family especially for fall and winter and other basic necessities. Jeff sold everything before they came to Peru and the family will be starting from nothing when they return.
One of Jeff´s big wishes in the future is to be able to take his children to Disney world in Florida because his late wife Yvonne always wanted to bring their children their in the future and it was where they spent their honeymoon together. She talked about taking them their when they got older when she was alive.
If you have any questions or want to make a non monetary donation, please feel free to contact Jeff at [email redacted] or [email redacted]
Fix Cas is an organization that aims to reform the Children's Aid Societies in the province of Ontario. The hyper link is safe and virus free.
Click the link below.
Indians Steal Baby from White Man 12may2007
The front page article about them that the late Margaret Philp wrote for The Globe and mail and the two article´s that the Guelph Mercury wrote are in the link below.
http://www.fixcas.com/cgi-bin/go.py?2007c.May12a
Five posts down in the link below the front page Globe and Mail story was posted on the Canada Court Watch news website.
http://www.freeforum101.com/canadacourtwatc/viewtopic.php?t=34&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=20&mforum=canadacourtwatc
Jeff did a radio interview on Monday night, May 26/2014 from 7 pm to 9 pm Pst and here is the link to listen to the 2 hour interview of Jeff on demand. It starts at the 1 minute mark.
https://soundcloud.com/gentlemansforum/sets/interview-with-jeff-geauvreau
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