Harvey McCue, C.M.

Secretary Treasurer

McCue Consulting, Ottawa, ON

In 1969 Harvey co-founded the Native Studies department (now Indigenous Studies) at Trent University which was the first such academic initiative in Canada where he taught for 14 years, from 1969 to 1983.  As the Director of Education Services for the Cree School Board in Northern Quebec for five years (1983-1988), he managed and directed eight Principals and four vice-Principals in eight Cree communities, as well as 65 professional staff and education consultants. As the Director of Education Services, Harvey provided the direction and over-all supervision for Cree elementary and secondary education and some 300 teachers.

He became the first-ever First Nations Director General of Indian education at INAC in Ottawa where he served for five years (1988-1993). He also assisted the Migmaw in Nova Scotia, working as the first Chief Executive Officer and founder of the Mikmaq Education Authority for two and a half years, 1993-1995.   He founded First Nations Youth At Risk, a charitable Aboriginal organization that provided community grants for youth at risk, in 1999 and served as its President and National Coordinator.

Harvey served as a Governor of the Trent University Board of Governors, a board member of the National Reading Campaign, and recently completed his tenure as Chair of the Ontario Heritage Trust. He is currently on the board of the Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund and the Stratford Festival. He has served on the boards of the Ontario Aboriginal Sports Circle, the First Nations Technical Institute, and Breakfast for Learning.

In 2019 he co-directed the production of a FN Suicide Prevention Curriculum that is currently available free on-line. In August 2020 he completed a Kindergarten to Grade 12 history curriculum for the Long Lake #58 First Nation in Ontario (the first of its kind in Canada). He has an MA from McMaster U (1979) and two grandchildren. He was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in 2020.