Fort Nelson First Nation Health Fair to return for 2026

FORT NELSON, B.C. — Indigenous practices will meet modern-day healthcare over the weekend in Fort Nelson First Nation (FNFN).

FNFN is set to host its annual Health Fair on its territory. The nation’s health and wellness department released a schedule timetabling the event on FNFN’s Facebook page.

The event will feature information booths, a soup kitchen and workshops about strength training, medicine bags, men’s health and wellness and diabetes management.

The opening evening on Saturday, March 21st will have a community dinner and be headlined by a stand-up comedy show starring influencer Novalee Fox.

Hailing from Ochapowace Nation on Treaty 4 territory in southern Saskatchewan, Fox began making social media videos in 2023, using platforms like TikTok to generate videos, focusing on comedy and a sober lifestyle. 

Fox’s TikTok account has 39,700 subscribers. In an interview available on YouTube, Fox said she was inspired to create the account after the death of a close cousin.

She also spoke about lifestyle changes and her videos in the interview with the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) in July 2025.

“It’s really important to me,” said Fox about her sobriety. “You have to be sober in order to connect with your ceremonial ways. To connect with your roots and to your ancestors.

“When we look at the western way of healing, it often isolates you. In the Indigenous way, it always reminds you that you have a connection out there and you’re connected with everything and you are never alone.”

Fox will also be on hand on Sunday, March 22nd as a keynote speaker, with her address looking at healing, grief, addiction and intergenerational trauma.

FNFN’s Health Fair is free and open to its community members and will take place starting at 9 a.m. on Saturday, March 21st at the Chalo School gymnasium.

It will close at 6:30 p.m. on day one, and re-open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, March 22nd. 

 Further details about the Health Fair is available by calling the FNFN’s health and wellness department at 250-774-2300.