Canada North Environmental Services
Karmen VanderZwan is a Senior Archaeologist / Heritage Division Manager at Canada North Environmental Services since January 2020. Previously, Karmen worked as a Project Archaeologist at Western Heritage from 2011 to 2019. Karmen also has experience as a Project Supervisor at Saskatchewan Archaeological Society in 2010 and as an Archaeological Technician at Western Heritage in 2008. Karmen holds a Master of Arts (M.A.) in Archaeology from the University of Saskatchewan, where Karmen also obtained their Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Archaeology.
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Canada North Environmental Services
Canada North Environmental Services (CanNorth) provides a full range of environmental services and is 100% First Nations owned by the Lac La Ronge Indian Band, Saskatchewan’s largest band. They provide high-quality, cost-effective environmental services and have offices in both Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Head Office) and Markham, Ontario. Their clients include the world’s largest mining companies, crown corporations, government, and well established oil and gas companies. CanNorth offers the technical skills and knowledge to deliver solutions for managing environmental risk in ways that benefit their clients, protects the environment, satisfy regulatory requirements, as well as supporting local communities through employment, training, and economic benefits. They provide a full range of environmental services through their aquatic, terrestrial, heritage/archaeology, hydrology, geomatics, and human health and ecological risk assessment divisions. In addition, CanNorth is well known for its liaison roles with community engagement and relationship building between Indigenous groups/ local communities and proponents. Projects are undertaken using defensible environmental study design, state-of-the-art technology for analyses, evaluation, and problem-solving, and emphasize local Aboriginal (indigenous) participation. Given their unique structure and expertise, CanNorth also assists a number of consulting companies with their diverse capacity. CanNorth has developed and implemented strong quality, environment, and safety management systems that meet or exceed international standards as demonstrated by their following certifications: ISO 9001 (international standard for quality management), ISO 14001 (international standard for environmental stewardship and management), OHSAS 18001 (international standard for occupational health and safety), and COR Energy Safety Canada. CanNorth is also an ISNetworld Registered company.