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Advancing Innovation in Newfoundland & Labrador Presented by Heather Hall Postdoctoral Fellow Leslie Harris Centre of Regional Policy and Development & Department of Geography Memorial University [email protected] Outline • AINL Overview • Insights for Community Engaged Research Advancing Innovation in NL Project AINL Team • Heather Hall • Rob Greenwood • Kelly Vodden • Jacqueline Walsh • Kyle White • Ken Carter AINL Project The overall goal of the Advancing Innovation in NL project is to synthesize, share, and ground-truth knowledge related to innovation and ways it can be fostered AINL Project • Advisory Board • Provide feedback on proposed workshop locations; • Provide advice and comments on the workshop reports; • Identify existing relevant data and resources; • Identify key local contacts in each of the workshop locations; • Highlight important local or stakeholder specific issues for consideration • Review emerging themes and lessons and providing advice to the Project and Research Teams on the final report (final content of the report will be the responsibility of the Project Team); and • Assist with publicity for all Advancing Innovation in NL events and reports. Newfoundland & Labrador Legend Nain QUEBEC Trans Canada Highway Major Highway Natuashish Ferry Route Hopedale 0 75 150 Makkovik Postville Kilometers Newfoundland Rigolet & Labrador Innovation Cartwright Churchill Falls r City Sheshatshiu ado br La Happy Valley - Workshops Legend Goose Bay Nain QUEBEC Trans Canada Highway Major Highway Port Hope Simpson Natuashish Ferry Route Hopedale 0 75 150 Makkovik Postville Kilometers Red Bay Blanc Sablon (Q ue .) Rigolet St. Anthony St. Barbe Cartwright Churchill Falls r City Sheshatshiu ado br La Happy Valley - Goose Bay Port Hope Simpson Baie Verte Blanc Sablo Red Bay n (Q Fogo Island ue .) St. Anthony St. Barbe Rocky Harbour Deer Lake Gander Baie Verte Grand Falls- Fogo Island Corner Brook Bonavista Windsor QUEBEC Rocky Harbour lle Deer Lake Gander nvi Stephe Corner Brook Grand Falls- Bonavista Clarenville QUEBEC Windsor Bay de Verde le nvil Stephe Clarenville Bay de Verde St. John's St. John's Burgeo Burgeo Channel - Harbour Breton Channel - Harbour Breton N.B. Port aux Basques Argentia Port aux Basques Argentia N.B. Marystown Marystown P.E . Trepassey .I. S Department of Finance . N . Newfoundland & Labrador Statistics Agency North Sydney P.E Trepassey .I. S Department of Finance . N Newfoundland & Labrador Statistics Agency North Sydney Deliverables • Workshop Reports • Innovation Summit • Knowledge Synthesis • Final Report Insights for Community Engaged Research Challenges • Demise of the REDBs • Business Engagement • Time • Funding • Personalities/Politics • Academic “value” Benefits • “It’s like having a wedding after a funeral” • Bridging the disconnects • Reporting back and validating research findings • Student engagement • Inform Policy • Networking Strategies • Pre-workshop meetings • Advisory Board • Holding workshops in conjunction with other events • Local partnerships Thank You! Questions??? .

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Introduction Inuit
TOPIC 6.5 When Newfoundland and Labrador joined Confederation in 1949, whose responsibility was it to make provisions for Aboriginals? Will modern technology help or hinder Aboriginal groups in the preservation of their culture? 6.94 School children in front of the Grenfell Mission plane, Nain, 1966 Introduction When Newfoundland and Labrador joined and other services to Inuit communities. But unlike Confederation in 1949, the Terms of Union between the Moravians, who tried to preserve Inuit language the two governments made no reference to Aboriginal and culture, early government programs were not peoples and no provisions were made to safeguard their concerned with these matters. Teachers, for example, land or culture. No bands or reserves existed in the new delivered lessons in English, and most health and province and its Aboriginal peoples did not become other workers could not speak Inuktitut. registered under the federal Indian Act. Schooling, which was compulsory for children, had a Inuit huge influence on Inuit culture. The curriculum taught At the time of Confederation, at least 700 Inuit lived students nothing about their culture or their language, so in Labrador. Aside from their widespread conversion both were severely eroded. Many dropped out of school. to Christianity, many aspects of Inuit culture were Furthermore, young Inuit who were in school in their intact – many Inuit still spoke Inuktitut, lived on formative years did not have the opportunity to learn their traditional lands, and maintained a seasonal the skills to live the traditional lifestyle of their parents subsistence economy that consisted largely of hunting and grandparents and became estranged from this way and fishing.
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