December 1, 2009 ■ Volume 6, Number 4
ShowcaSing the mining expertiSe of north Bay, timminS and SudBury
First Nations knock on the door
■ Budding relationship with industry
a win-win proposition for everyone
w w w .
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December 1, 2009 ■ Volume 6, Number 4
ShowcaSing the mining expertiSe of north Bay, timminS and SudBury
First Nations knock on the door
■ Budding relationship with industry
a win-win proposition for everyone
w w w .
s u d b u r y m i n i n g s o l u t i o n s .
c o m
W
hen Pic River First
Nation Chief Roy
Michano flew
into Toronto to
attend the 17th annual conference of the Canadian Aboriginal
Minerals Association (CAMA)
in November, he couldn’t help
being amused when his cab driver admitted to being of Indian
ancestry.
Though sharing the
same ethnic label, they couldn’t
have been more different.
Chief
Michano’s ancestors have called
Ontario home for thousands of
years.
The cab driver, on the
other hand, was a recent immigrant from South Asia.
It’s always a bit of a culture
shock traveling from a remote
First Nation community in
Ontario’s Far North and finding
yourself hours later in the hustle
and bustle of Canada’s largest
metropolis.
It can’t be easy witnessing
the economic
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