{"id":5556,"date":"2025-07-29T09:42:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T16:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/?page_id=5556"},"modified":"2025-10-23T13:44:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T20:44:33","slug":"janet-wilson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/ninoxsola\/janet-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"Janet Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-efkqt-ff3a52de231734063d85b89e20015296\">\n.flex_column.av-efkqt-ff3a52de231734063d85b89e20015296{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-efkqt-ff3a52de231734063d85b89e20015296 av_one_third  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kmpfc7m8-253e1bd732d456baf19d0caa9eeb57e5\">\n.avia-image-container.av-kmpfc7m8-253e1bd732d456baf19d0caa9eeb57e5 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-kmpfc7m8-253e1bd732d456baf19d0caa9eeb57e5 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-kmpfc7m8-253e1bd732d456baf19d0caa9eeb57e5 av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-1  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  red-border'   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-5559 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-5559 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2025\/07\/Janet-Wilson.jpg\" alt='' title='Janet Wilson'  height=\"623\" width=\"449\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2025\/07\/Janet-Wilson.jpg 449w, https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2025\/07\/Janet-Wilson-216x300.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-9illp-7c6aae6fd9b46132320b19a76927e132\">\n.flex_column.av-9illp-7c6aae6fd9b46132320b19a76927e132{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-9illp-7c6aae6fd9b46132320b19a76927e132 av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_one_third  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-kmpeahxy-9e50e2be09c698213e0681733b8695ca '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h2>Janet Wilson<\/h2>\n<h3>Biography<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Ojibway (Anishanabe)-Enniskillen, Ontario<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Janet was raised by Grandparents and Aunties in the village of Enniskillen, Ontario where she, her sister and brother had been put into the foster system at a young age. She did not have the opportunity to know her birth mother who was Sheeshagwaning First Nation from Manitoulin Island in Ontario. Her Mother had been enfranchised when she married Janet\u2019s father who was of Scottish and English descent.<\/p>\n<p>Janet came to the Comox Valley in 1978 when she met and married a K\u2019\u00f3moks First Nation member and had 2 beautiful daughters.<\/p>\n<p>Living and learning on the KFN reserve brought her a pride and sense of belonging that she had never known growing up in an urban setting with little contact with other Indigenous families.<\/p>\n<p>This feeling of community instilled in Janet a strong conviction that it is imperative to have a presence in urban schools so our children can see, connect and feel their own uniqueness as an Indigenous person.<\/p>\n<p>Janet has been in the childcare field for 26 years, earning her Early Childcare Education certification at NIC. She has worked in several daycares in the Valley but found her home at the CV Aboriginal Head Start Preschool program where she stayed for 16 years; drumming and singing with our young ones.<\/p>\n<p>Janet is an active member of our community and sits as an Elder on the Board with the Indigenous Women\u2019s Sharing Society, is a Wachiay Friendship member and an Elder with Laichwiltach Family Life Society. She is also involved with the Comox Valley Substance Use Strategy Collaborative.<\/p>\n<p>Janet volunteers her time at the Lodge and the Junction participating in crafting circles, drumming and singing with and for, people who are coping with addictions. She also participates in many community gatherings such as MMIW Awareness Day, Comox Valley Spirit Walk and Orange Shirt Day.<\/p>\n<p>Janet strives to live by the Ojibway Seven Sacred Teachings and is looking forward to bringing her teachings, knowledge and caring presence into our classrooms with a joyous heart.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":0,"parent":346,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5556","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-02 06:13:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"post_tag","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5556"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5713,"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5556\/revisions\/5713"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}