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Alaska Native Arts and Crafts: Potential for Expansion
Alberta Indigenous Tourism Supplier/Provider Research
Analysis of 2019 survey, site visits, and inventory database, and Indigenous Tourism Canada's 2017 research on Alberta and Canada's supplier sector.
Breaking Barriers: A Decade of Indigenous Women's Entrepreneurship in Canada
Uses data from the Canadian Council of Aboriginal Business' surveys conducted in 2010, 2015, and 2019.
Castor Resartus: The Beaver Hat in History
Compilation of primary sources, mainly newspaper articles.
Chapter 4 - Competition for the Fur Trade
For use with chapter from Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada, a Grade 7 Social Studies textbook.
Chapter 4: Competition for Trade
For use with chapter from Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada, a Grade 7 Social Studies textbook.
Chapter 4 - Competition for Trade Notes (Pt. 2) [Answer Key]
Student handout for use with Grade 7 Social Studies textbook chapter in Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada by Daniel Francis; contributing authors Angus Scully and Jill Germain.
Related Material: "Competition for Trade" Workbook.
Chapter 4 “Competition for Trade” Workbook
For use with chapter in the Grade 7 Social Studies textbook Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada by Daniel Francis; contributing authors Angus Scully and Jill Germain.
Related Material: Competition for Trade Notes (Pt. 2) [Answer Key]
Characteristics of Indigenous-owned Businesses
Statistics for number of businesses and owner gender.
Climbing the Mountain: Reconciliation in Workplaces: Participant Guidebook
Created to accompany workshop facilitated by Dr. Niigaan Sinclair.
Commerce by a Frozen Sea: Native Americans and the European Fur Trade
Chapters one and two from the book. Note: Many tables are missing.
Conflicting Plans
2nd edition.
Defining Indigenous Businesses in Canada
Looks at Canadian comparators in a number of juristictions and international comparators in Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii.
Doing Business with Indigenous Creative Industries in Canada
Economic Aspects of the Indigenous Experience in Canada
The Fur Trade in Canada
Timeline of significant dates and events from 1497 to 2006 with main focus being the Hudson's Bay Company.
How Furs Built Canada
Special digital edition of Canada's History's magazine for children Kayak. Suitable for ages 7-12
Identifying Indigenous Business Owners and Indigenous-Owned Businesses
Based on statistics from the Canadian Employer–Employee Dynamics Database (2018), the Census of Population (2001, 2006, 2016) and the 2011 National Household Survey.
Indigenous Agriculture and Agri-Food: The Path Forward Supporting the Business Management Needs of Indigenous Producers: Final Report
Analyzes results of environmental scan of existing research and programs, national survey, consultations with focus groups and interviews and makes recommendations based on findings.
Inuit Art and HBC: Lesson Plan
Examines the company's role in fostering the development, promotion, collection and market for Inuit art. Suitable for Grades 4 to 12.
Manitoba and Canada's North-West: Founders and Builders
Special issue of Canadian Issues containing articles which focus on the Métis and the formation of Manitoba.
An Overview of the Indigenous Economy in Canada
Discusses characteristics such as labour market and the business sector, institutional settings, and the state of infrastructure.
Pride and Poverty: The Rise and Fall of the Metis in Western Canada
Survey of Indigenous-Owned Businesses: Select Results on Sources of Financing, Price and Wage Growth Expectations and Inflation Expectations
Results from telephone interviews with 2,603 First Nations, Inuit and Métis business owners between May 10 and September 22, 2021.
The Untold Story of the Hudson's Bay Company
Discusses the company's history from its origins to the present day and its historical relationship with Indigenous peoples.
Related material: Lesson Plan.