ONTARIO — Agoke Development Corporation received the Ontario Forest Sector Champion of the Year Award from the Ontario Forest Industries Association (OFIA). …Thunder Bay-based Agoke is an award-winning forestry company owned by the First Nations of Aroland, Eabametoong and Marten Falls. The corporation is engaged in forest management, harvesting, road construction, road maintenance and training. The three communities had an aspirational goal of obtaining a sustainable forest licence on the dormant 19,000-square-kilometre Ogoki Forest to do the harvesting and hauling to area mills. That goal came to pass in the spring of 2018 with an historic agreement with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry. It led to the signing of a joint venture agreement with Buchanan Sawmills to supply and reopen the Nakina mill.