Keith Goulet

Keith Goulet
Keith Goulet
MLA for Cumberland
	In office; October 20, 1986 – November 5, 2003
Preceded by	Lawrence Yew
Succeeded by	Joan Beatty
Personal details
Born	April 3, 1946 (age 78); Cumberland House, Saskatchewan
Political party	New Democratic Party
Children	Danis Goulet, Koonu Goulet
Residence(s)	Cumberland House, Saskatchewan

Keith Napoleon Goulet (born April 3, 1946) is a former Canadian politician, who represented the constituency of Cumberland in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan from 1986 to 2003. A member of Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation, he was the first Aboriginal person appointed to the Executive Council of Saskatchewan.^[1]

Life

He was born in Cumberland House, Saskatchewan in 1946, the son of Arthur Goulet and Veronique Carriere,^[2] and was educated in Cumberland House in Prince Albert, at teacher's college in Ontario, at the University of Saskatchewan, and at the University of Regina. Goulet taught elementary school, lectured at the University of Saskatchewan, was principal of La Ronge Community College and was executive director of the Gabriel Dumont Institute of Métis Studies and Applied Research. In 1974, he married Linda May Hemingway.^[2] He has two daughters, filmmaker Danis Goulet^[3] and Kona Goulet, as well as three grandchildren.

Goulet was the first Indigenous member of the provincial cabinet, serving as Provincial Secretary, as Associate Minister of Education, and as Minister of Northern Affairs. He retired from cabinet in October 2001 and retired from the legislature in 2003.^[2]

As of 2022, he was living in Prince Albert.^[2]

References

^ "GOULET, KEITH (1946-)". The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan. Retrieved April 18, 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Keith Goulet fonds". Saskatchewan Archival Information Network. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016.
^ Levy, Bryn (October 8, 2021) [Originally published October 7, 2021]. "Indigenous storyteller Danis Goulet drives change in Canada's film industry". The StarPhoenix. Retrieved April 18, 2023.