Date of birth: February 13, 1950 Place of birth: Montreal Province: Quebec Callings: Pioneer and entrepreneur	Photo : NUNAFRANC
Daniel Cuerrier is the son of Roger Guerrier and Louise Sauvé. He attended primary school and Saint-Thomas secondary school in Pointe-Claire. He completed his college studies at the Collège Bourget in Rigaud in 1969. From 1970 to 1986, he worked as a printer and craft carpenter in the area of St-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Quebec. The following year, in 1987, he left for the Northwest Territories, where he set up a construction firm. Daniel Cuerrier decided to end his entrepreneurial activities in 1990. In 1991, he was appointed development officer for the Association des francophones d'Iqaluit, a position he held until the spring of 1993. Later, he was the director in charge of maintaining municipal buildings in Iqaluit. During those years, he studied interpretation and translation into Inuit at the Arctic College in Iqaluit and Yellowknife. He obtained his certificate as a member of the Canadian Translators and Interpreters Council (Inuit Language Interpreters) and worked as a freelance for various ministries and organizations, including the Ministry of Education of the Northwest Territories and the Nunavut Tonngavik. Daniel Cuerrier is a founding member of the only French-language community radio station north of the 60th parallel, CFReT FM. Between 1992 and 1994, he participated in the negotiations for and implementation of this unique radio station. In 1994, he was elected President of the Association des francophones d'Iqaluit. Since April 1, 1999 when Nunavut, a new Canadian Territory, was created, he has served as Director General of the new Association des francophones de Nunavut. Nunavut was founded on April 1, 1999. It covers an area of two million square kilometres. The total population is 28,000, the great majority of which (85%) is Inuit. In addition, nearly 1,000 francophones live there. Daniel Cuerrier has always had a warm interest in the defence, promotion and development of the French language and culture, even in our country's Far North. He is a pioneer and an artisan for the recognition of the French fact in the Great Canadian North.