Club Amick is a book club for children in Ontario’s remote First Nation communities. Each club member receives a children’s book and an activities-oriented newsletter four times per year. The goal is for young Native children to create their own home libraries, to receive packages addressed in their names featuring a newsletter together with a special book selected just for them, and to keep the literacy light burning.

Club Amick is the fourth phase of the Lieutenant Governor’s Aboriginal Literacy initiatives. It complements the Lieutenant Governor’s Aboriginal Book Drive, the Lieutenant Governor’s Aboriginal School Twinning Program and the Lieutenant Governor’s Aboriginal Summer Literacy Camps that targeted the needs and interests of First Nation youth in remote northern communities. Started by Ontario’s former Lieutenant Governor, The Honourable James K. Bartleman, support for the program continues by the current Lieutenant Governor, The Honourable David C. Onley.

“We all know how fundamental literacy is. All of these projects are intended to build basic literacy skills in Native children in remote communities. These communities face terrible problems with youth suicide engendered by hopelessness. Literacy is a life skill that will give them the ability and hope for a better life. It is a survival skill in our society and support for this skill is an urgent need in remote First Nations communities.”

Thank you for your interest in Club Amick. It sends an important message to the children that others care about them. As people of good will work together, we can overcome the problems that face these children and ensure that no child is left behind.

The Honourable James K. Bartleman, former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario and founder of Club Amick Club Amick is under the Patronage of Her Excellency, The Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada