Carl Mashon
Director
Carl has witnessed many housing projects start as ideas and come to fruition. Some of M’akola’s successes that Carl boasts about include the first assisted living site in Duncan on Cowichan First Nation’s Traditional Territory Ts’I’ts’uwatul Lelum and now the latest project 550 Goldstream Avenue with head offices of the society and 36-affordable family units.
“M’akola is creating partnerships to make new housing available. We are planning what the future of affordable housing looks like,” he explained.
Carl is proud to see the innovation come out of M’akola while preparing for the expiration of federal operating agreements and for M’akola
Carl currently serves as the Treasurer for the M’akola Group of Societies. He has been involved in Indigenous organizations for more than 20 years. Carl has a deep understanding of the scale and diversity of needs of Indigenous families, especially those that are more specific to urban communities.
He is of Cree ancestry from the Saddle Lake First Nation in Alberta and brings a wide range of professional and life experience to the Board. Carl is always grateful for his guest status, living, working and playing on the traditional territory of the Lekwungen Peoples.