By Darlene Wroe Local Journalism Initiative Reporter NOTRE-DAME-DU-NORD, QUEBEC – Carol McBride, past chief of Timiskaming First Nation, and the outgoing president of the Native Women’s Association of Canada, recently received the Charles III Coronation Medal. In a ceremony at the Governor General’s Citadelle in Quebec City September 20, McBride was presented with the medal by Governor General Mary Simon. She was one of 59 people selected from across Canada and all walks of life to receive the medal. McBride, who resides in Notre-Dame-du-Nord, Quebec, has been holding the position of president of the Native Women’s Association of Canada for the past 26 months, but stepped down at the end of September. “It is a three-year mandate,” she related in a telephone interview of the position, but “it is…
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