Councilor Hazel Burt

Hazel Burt was born in Burns Lake and grew up on her father’s farm, Barkers Meadows. Her mother is a Cheslatta Carrier Maryanna Morris and her father is Alfred Hoyt Burt, who was born in Montana and moved to Canada in a wagon with his family and cattle when he was about 5 months old. Hazel raised both her children with her spouse in Vanderhoof. Maternal Grandparents – Eulalie Morris from the Omineca band and Michell Jack from the Cheslatta band. Paternal Grandparents – Hattie from North Carolina and Frank Burt from England.

After her work with CSFS, Hazel moved from Vanderhoof to the Southside in 2006 to care for her father and started working as a care-aid for the elders of the band until she ran for council in 2011.