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Path to Reconciliation found within urban reserves

by MEYER S
Path to Reconciliation found within urban reserves Cultural Campus: Showcasing Indigenous art, design, and architecture, the gateway to the Cultural Campus at Taylor Avenue is poised to become a local and regional landmark. Image Courtesy of Treaty One Development Corporation
Published in June 2022 - Page 12

For more than a century, the Indian Act locked Indigenous people out of the Canadian economy. Indian agents controlled the movement of Indigenous people while enforcing federal government policy.

First Nations reserves were often created on remote lands. Indigenous people found themselves on lands far removed from the urban centres. And these urban areas would, over time, drive the Canadian economy. Today, urban reserves are becoming an economic engine of inclusion. As a result, there

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