Acden is 100% community-owned by the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation. Acden began as a labour services company consisting of one truck and ten employees and is now one of Canada’s largest Indigenous corporations.
With a track record for success stretching back three decades, Acden provides diversified industrial services to companies that demand the highest performance, safety and productivity from all aspects of their business.
Since its inception, our corporation has grown steadily and now encompasses 21 companies and growing, and over 1,800 employees.
Acden’s business partnerships are examples of economic reconciliation in action and its success helps to deliver strategic programs identified by the Nation that support health, housing, education, well-being, culture and language revitalization, job creation and sustainability, and positive environmental stewardship.