Prime Minister to visit Calgary in March

By 660 NEWS Staff

Posted Feb 23, 2016 10:56 pm.

This article is more than 5 years old.

The Prime Minister will be visiting Calgary early next month, 660 News has learned.

Justin Trudeau will visit with the T’suu Tina Nation on March 4th, along with Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde.

They will both recieve double eagle head dresses in the visit.

The last time a sitting Prime Minister received one was John Diefenbaker in 1959, when he visited the Whitecap Dakota First Nation in Saskatchewan, to mark the beginning of construction on the Gardiner Dam.

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