Summary
Settlement and development in southern Saskatchewan initiated a greater need for products that could be found in the north. As a result, new companies began extracting resources from Northern Saskatchewan. Loggings, the fisheries, and mineral extraction was initiated in the decades following the turn of the twentieth century.
Implications
Resource extraction disrupted and threatened the traditional livelihoods of Metis in the region. Additionally, resource development in the North would also lead to forced relocations of Indigenous groups off their home territories or reserve lands. The destruction of the environment for resource development would affect subsistence patterns, migration patterns of game such as caribou, create new environmental outcomes such as flooding, and affect the quality of water and food Indigenous peoples needed to survive.
Sub Event
Impact on Northern Saskatchwan Metis Communities
Resources
Date
1890-00-00
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