VANCOUVER,
Jan. 7, 2014 /CNW/ - CanAlaska
Uranium Ltd. (TSXV : CVV) ("CanAlaska" or the "Company") is
pleased to announce that the Honorable Kathleen Kennedy Townsend,
Director at The Rock Creek Group and Lieutenant Governor of
Maryland from 1995 to 2003, has
been named to the Company's Board of Directors effective
immediately. In connection with Ms. Townsend's appointment, the Company has
granted an incentive stock option to acquire up to 400,000 common
shares at $0.12 per share exercisable
for a five year period.
"We look forward to Kathleen's insight and
guidance as a member of the CanAlaska's board as well as a member
of the board's Audit Committee," said Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr., Chairman. "She is
capable of assisting CanAlaska on many fronts as it works to
discovery on its extensive landholdings, and with its International
Joint Venture partners".
"CanAlaska's portfolio of advanced uranium
projects in the Athabasca Basin,
and its support by major international corporations, provides a
unique opportunity to become successful in the discovery of new
large-scale supplies of uranium. CanAlaska has diligently
carried out exploration in the Athabasca since 2005, and has reached the
point where the discovery process is near complete. The
Company has prioritized and developed its relationship with the
local communities and with direct involvement in exploration on and
near traditional lands. The Athabasca basin hosts the world's richest
uranium mines, and this places the discovery of new mines in an
exciting and unique economic, political and social
environment. I'm excited to be a part of these developments,"
commented Ms. Townsend.
Ms. Townsend
has a long history of accomplishments in the public and private
sectors. She is a Director at The Rock Creek Group, a
Washington, D.C. based investment
advisor founded by the former treasurer of the World Bank. She
was the State of Maryland's first
woman Lieutenant Governor. She had responsibility for a
multibillion-dollar budget and oversight of major cabinet
departments. Before her 1995 election, Ms. Townsend served as Deputy Assistant Attorney
General of the United
States. She led the planning to put 100,000 police
officers into communities and she ignited the Police Corps, a
program to give college scholarships to young people who pledge to
work as police officers for four years after
graduating. Earlier in her career, Ms. Townsend served as the founder and director of
the Maryland Student Service Alliance.
Ms. Townsend is
an honors graduate of Harvard
University, and earned her law degree from the University of New Mexico. While there she
contributed a Law Review article on the rehabilitation of uranium
mine sites. She has received 12 honorary degrees. A
member of the bar in Maryland,
Connecticut and Massachusetts, she is also a certified
broker-dealer and author.
President Peter
Dasler, M.Sc., P Geo. is pleased to welcome Ms. Townsend. Shareholders and investors can
review detailed information on all the Company's 18 uranium
projects and joint ventures on the Company's website at
www.canalaska.com.
About CanAlaska Uranium
CANALASKA URANIUM LTD. (CVV -- TSX, CVVUF -- OTCBB, DH7F --
Frankfurt) has undertaken
uranium exploration on multiple uranium projects in Canada's Athabasca Basin -- the "Saudi Arabia of Uranium" since 2005. The
Company has major international partners for its West McArthur and
Cree East properties, and is concentrating its activities on
these advanced projects.
For more information, visit
www.canalaska.com
On behalf of the Board of Directors
(signed)
Peter Dasler,
M.Sc., P.Geo., President & CEO,
CanAlaska Uranium Ltd.
The TSX-V has not reviewed and does not accept
responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release: CUSIP#
13708P 10 2. This news release may contain certain "Forward-Looking
Statements" within the meaning of Section 21E of the United States
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements, other
than statements of historical fact, included herein are
forward-looking statements that involve various risks and
uncertainties. There can be no assurance that such statements will
prove to be accurate, and actual results and future events could
differ materially from those anticipated in such statements.
Important factors that could cause actual results to differ
materially from the Company's expectations are disclosed in the
Company's documents filed from time to time with the British Columbia Securities Commission and the
United States Securities & Exchange Commission.
SOURCE CanAlaska Uranium Ltd.
