Table 2.

Summary of the FNFNES pharmaceutical sampling sites of First Nations

Year	Region	No. of First Nations*	Recreational and/or proximity to a community	Fishing sites	Drinking water sources	Proximity to wastewater	Total no. of sites
2009	British Columbia	21	29	10	10	12	61
2010	Manitoba	12	11	9	12	4	36
2011/2012	Ontario	17	16	9	30	11	66
2013	Alberta	10	7	11	9	3	30
2014	Atlantic Canada	11	4	21	2	7	34
2015	Saskatchewan	14	12	18	2	10	42
2016	Quebec	10	10	8	9	6	33
Total		95	89	86	74	53	302

*While 95 First Nations completed the pharmaceutical component of the study, 3 First Nations in Manitoba withdrew from the larger study but continued to collaborate on the pharmaceutical study. One Ontario First Nation community withdrew from the pharmaceutical sampling component while participating in all other components of the FNFNES study in Ontario