Site of national significance for transportation, trade, and settlement as well as the history of the Canadian West. Site includes natural resources, fur trade, Aboriginal settlement, immigration, online tour, activities, interpretive programs, and visitor information.
Examines how the structure of native institutions and property rights provided a relatively high standard of living in the mid eighteenth century and for part of the nineteenth, then was unable to experience modern rates of economic growth and provide avenues for further development.
Journal of Ecotourism, vol. 8, no. 2, Aboriginal Ecotourism, June 2009, pp. 128-143
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Looks at the outcomes of reporting back the results of research findings to communities in Churchill, Manitoba, Cambridge Bay and Pond Inlet in Nunavut.
Canadian Diversity=Diversitié canadienne, vol. 7, no. 3, One Path, Many Directions: The Complex and Diverse Nature of Contemporary Aboriginal Reality, Fall, 2009, pp. 69-76
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Analyzes community well-being in Manitoba using three measures: self-assessed personal health, reported improvements in family finances, hope for the community's economy.
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