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Towards a Fluency in Mapping: Building Mapping Capacity to Facilitate Land and Resource Management and Community Planning with the Algonquin Nation

Under this project, the Algonquin Nation Secretariat (ANS) and its three-member First Nations—Timiskaming First Nation, the Algonquins of Barriere Lake, and Wolf Lake First Nation—will build information and mapping capacity to support local decision making. Specifically, these First Nations communities will develop information management tools and online mapping applications to use during consultations with industry and governments.

ANS and its partners will document the flow of information (including cultural data) into the communities, use location-based information and maps to assess various types of plans (e.g., economic development plans) and package community responses to governments and third parties.

This pilot will help ANS and its communities achieve four outcomes:

  1. Gain training and technical support
  2. Formalize data and Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) data-management standards, including metadata documentation, map templates, symbolization, storage, and backups
  3. Consolidate various types of location-based data and construct a data library
  4. Acquire and implement new information-management tools, including hardware, software, and local infrastructure

The project will help ANS and its communities to more effectively plan how to use their lands, to deal with routine consultations with the Crown more efficiently, and to generate new capacity to support conservation and economic development. Local technicians will carry out the bulk of the project’s work associated while outside consultants provide training and mentoring.


Primary Partner: Algonquin Nation Secretariat  Notre Dame du Nord,  Quebec;

Partners: Timiskaming First Nation; the Algonquins of Barriere Lake; Wolf Lake First Nation

Funding From GeoConnections: $69,457.00 ( 53.0 %)

Estimated Inception Date: December 1, 2007

Estimated Completion Date: December 31, 2008

Deliverables from this project benefitted the following provinces: Ontario; Quebec;