Located inside the Pembroke Mall, the Indigenous community hub is being described as a safe space where Indigenous people can gather to connect and reconnect with their culture.
The grand opening of Pembroke's first Indigenous community hub was held Saturday.
The hub is free for all Indigenous and non-Indigenous people to explore. While being a community gathering space, it also operates as an Indigenous consignment shop, an Internet cafe, and offers mental health and addictions services, and trauma therapy. "For us to come and be able to be with other indigenous peoples, it's like a new home here for me and I'm just so happy," he tells CTV News Ottawa.
"The one thing that was lacking was a permanent spot because we tend to forget that a majority of Indigenous people are off the reserve," said Pembroke Mayor Mike LeMay.
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