The Pelee Coastal Resilience Committee was originally assembled in the fall of 2023 with funding from Environment and Climate Change Canada. The Committee applied to Natural Resources Canada’s Climate Resilience Coastal Communities Program for funding to develop a Coastal Resilience Action Plan for the two littoral cells that converge on the Pelee Peninsula in southwestern Ontario. The application was successful and a contribution agreement was signed in the summer 2024.

Committee members were selected from organizations that represent the four dimensions of our coastal areas in the Great Lakes, including social, economic, ecological, and physical systems. Refer to the adjacent diagram for examples of the linkages needed to achieve a resilience coast, such as adaptation concepts that respect both social and ecological dimensions to be sustainable, and solutions that are viable economically and for the physical coastal system.

The member organizations include:

• County of Essex
• Municipality of Chatham-Kent
• Municipality of Leamington
• Town of Kingsville
• Town of Essex
• Town of Amherstburg
• Essex Region Conservation Authority
• Lower Thames Valley Conservation Authority
• Caldwell First Nation
• Leamington Shoreline Association
• PPNP Citizens Advisory Committee
• South Essex Community Council
• Leamington District Chamber of Commerce
• Ontario Greenhouse Vegetable Growers
• Nature Conservancy of Canada
• Natural Resources Canada
• Parks Canada
• Canada Water Agency
• Department of Fisheries and Oceans