The autochtonous treaties in Canada
(january 2010)
This day, we find approximately 70 historic treaties in Canada, of varied shape, contents and territorial area. In this paper, you can see the cartography of 19 of which the territorial area is the biggest.
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Communities dependent on the forest in Canada
(december 2009)
For a country so little populated as Canada, the rural life answers a reality of geopolitical nature. It seems that an idle territory loses its identity and quickly, becomes an object of greed. The national identity implies inevitably a concrete territorial referent and the rural life allows to a large extent, to maintain the occupation of the territory. The rural life offers a mode of occupation of the space which allows the need or by necessity, a return in the forest. Moreover, the forested production is a part of important and often additional activities of the traditionally agricultural rural circles.
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Quebec's important relationship with the forest has lasted centuries. Abundant natural resources and beautiful landscapes offer both economic and priceless environmental advantages.
Taking a democratic approach to forest preservation and related socioeconomic concerns, since the 1990s, several of Quebec's parliamentary committees and interest groups have agreed to postpone decisions on forest utilization.
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Communication Connections of New England
