Interior Metis Child & Family Services

I often get asked how I got my name and I thought that this would be a good format in which to let people know a little bit more about my name and who I am.

My father is originally from the heart of the Métis Homeland in Manitoba where he was initially raised by his Grandmother until being taken away and put in the Catholic Mission School in Brandon. He ran away from the school when he was 14 and after seeing his family he traveled west to British Columbia and finally settled in the Cariboo area around Williams Lake. He was fortunate enough to be taken under the wing of a Spanish Cowboy by the name of Eddy Moreno and was raised by Eddy until he enlisted to go to Korea. He always said that he would name his first son after Eddy but as my mother did not like the name Eddy, I was named Moreno. The first Goring to come to Canada was George Goring who emigrated in 1695 from Goring By Sea, England. He settled in Upper Canada and eventually married one of the Lambert girls named Leticia.

I grew up in the Interior of B.C. in a community called Walhachin. I graduated from Ashcroft Secondary School in 1981 and then went back to University when I was 32 years old. I finished off the Social Service Worker program and then took intermittent courses from there. The Aboriginal organizations I have worked for are: Métis Nation of Alberta, Treaty 6 & 7, School District #73 as a First Nations Support Worker and Interior Métis Child & Family Services (Formerly Kamloops Métis Family Services). I am one of the founding members of Kamloops Métis Family Services (now known as Interior Métis Child & Family Services or IMCFS) and its current Executive Director. I am very proud to have been able to play a part in the establishment of an agency that was designed and mandated to be able to serve the Métis people of this area and I continue to be excited about the many opportunities that we have as Métis people to empower one another in every aspect of establishing our Métis Nation. I am Proud to be Métis and will continue to work for the best tomorrow for our children and families.