The Temagami experience: recreation, resources, and aboriginal rights in the northern Ontario wilderness

Hodgins, Bruce W.; Benidickson, Jamie

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The Temagami experience: recreation, resources, and aboriginal rights in the northern Ontario wilderness

University of Toronto Press • Toronto • Published In 1989 • Pages:

By: Hodgins, Bruce W., Benidickson, Jamie.

Abstract
This is a history of resource development, recreational land use, and aboriginal rights in the Temagami country of northeastern Ontario. The authors discuss the traditional way of life of the Ojibwa and their early contact with Europeans. Several chapters deal exclusively with the lumber industry and the development of Temagami as a summer vacation spot for wealthy urban Canadians and Americans. The Temagami Ojibwa, or Teme-augama Anishnabai, as they call themselves, have marginal roles in the book, until the 1970s when lumbering and recreational interests come to a head. The Ojibwa side with the recreational users at first and then go on to press for their own aboriginal rights. The band had never signed the Robinson-Huron Treaty of 1850 and therefore still had a claim to the land. The ensuing litigation held up development all together, forcing a major lumber company to close down and a planned resort development to be dropped. The band was defeated in court, however, the book leaves us with their plans to repeal the case, or seek an out-of-court settlement with the provincial government.

HRAF PubDate

2000

Region

North America