Tracy Thomas – Director

Representative for Northwest Territories, Yukon Territory, and Nunavut

Senior Administrative Officer
Town of Fort Smith
PO Box 147, 174 McDougal Road
Fort Smith, NWT
X0E 0P0
Tel:  (867) 872-8400
E-mail:  sao@fortsmith.ca

Born and raised in northern Ontario, Tracy Thomas moved to Nunavut in 2001 after completing her undergraduate degree in Business Administration. Starting off in the small, picturesque hamlet of Clyde River as the Executive Director for a regional wellness centre, she then moved to Iqaluit to work for the Government of Nunavut’s Department of Health.

Here she administered the Health Canada First Nation and Inuit Health Branch Funding programs for the Territory.  This role provided her with the amazing benefit of being able to visit and work within each of the 25 Nunavut communities, assisting in developing supports, relationships, and programming to empower the community to address identified needs, build capacity and create locally developed solutions.   

In 2008, she moved to the Yukon to take on the Executive Director role for a brand new mine training association that was a partnership between First Nations, Industry and Government and primarily funded under the Federal Aboriginal Skills and Employment Partnership program, as well as the Yukon Government and CANNOR, the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency.

Following that role, she spent the next few years as an executive management consultant working in the mining industry, non-profits, First Nations government and development corporations, while also pursuing her master’s in public administration.  In 2018, she decided to venture into municipal government, becoming the Chief Administrative Officer for the Village of Carmacks, and has enjoyed the ongoing challenges and opportunities inherent with leadership in a small rural community.  

During her time in Carmacks, Thomas became active in the National asset management field, obtaining her Asset Management Professional Certificate through PEMAC, co-chairing Asset Management Canada and being one of the Northern Representatives on FCM’s MAMP Task Group.

In January 2024, she decided that she needed another adventure and to (literally) explore new territories and moved to the town of Fort Smith, NT to take on the Senior Administrative Officer role in the beautiful location on the banks of Slave River, bordering the Wood Buffalo National Park.