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Eladia Smoke, OAA | MAA | FRAIC | LEED®AP

Principal Architect
Smoke Architecture Inc.

KaaSheGaaBaaWeak | Eladia Smoke is Anishinaabekwe from Obishikokaang | Lac Seul First Nation, with family roots in Alderville First Nation, Winnipeg, and Toronto.

Eladia has worked in architecture since 2002. She founded Smoke Architecture as principal architect in 2014; is a founding partner of Oshkaabewis Engineering & Consulting, established 2024; and is an inaugural board member of Amplify Indigenous Voices in Architecture (AIVIA), in process 2024. She is the first Anishinaabekwe architect in Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec, the third Indigenous woman licensed as an architect in Canada.

Eladia is a founding member of RAIC’s Indigenous Task Force established 2016, and was a full-time faculty member at Laurentian’s McEwen School of Architecture from 2016 to 2022. Eladia serves on The International Union of Architects Indigenous Peoples Work Programme (UIA IPWP), the Toronto Urban Design Review Panel, and the Hamilton Climate Change Advisory Committee. Professional work includes internationally award-winning community-based and institutional projects working alongside Indigenous peoples and listening closely to our Elders.

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