Natural Resources Canada
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Aboriginal Resources
Natural resources offer considerable opportunities for Aboriginal communities across Canada. Resources-based projects and activities support the creation and preservation of jobs, promote relevant education and skills development, improve economic and business prospects, enhance community leadership, and encourage the wise stewardship of the natural environment — all with an eye to a better future.
Natural Resources Canada's (NRCan) programs and services provide useful tools that include information and training, technical and scientific expertise, and skills and capacity development. These tools can help Aboriginal people manage their own lands and resources, and participate more fully in Canada's natural resources-based economy.
This Web page is your connection to these useful tools available from NRCan.
- Claims and Treaties
- Housing and infrastructure
- Education
- Conservation, protection and sustainable development
- Maps
- Government of Canada Links
Claims and Treaties
The Canada Centre for Cadastral Management’s main objective is to provide local communities with the land survey component of the property rights infrastructure to support sustainable economic development.
Housing and infrastructure
The following programs promote the creation of energy-efficient buildings and better land-administration systems:
- Commercial Building Incentive Program
- Geomatics for Aboriginal Property Rights Infrastructure
- R-2000
- NRCan Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Funding Program Guide for Aboriginal and Northern Communities
Education
- Native Names for Native Places — Geographical Names of Canada
- A Guide to Natural Resources Canada Programs and Activities in Canada’s North
- Mining and Aboriginal Communities (video)
Conservation, protection and sustainable development
The following programs and initiatives enhance the capacity of First Nations to sustainably manage their resources, increase cooperation and partnerships, and ensure the transfer of knowledge to younger generations:
- Aboriginal Affairs and Sustainable Communities Division
- Canada–Nunavut Geoscience Office
- Canadian Model Forest Network: Aboriginal Strategic Initiative
- Geomatics for Northern Development
- Geoconnections–Aboriginal Communities
- Local Environmental Applications Program
- Polar Continental Shelf Project
- Renewable Energy Deployment Initiative
- RETScreen® Aboriginal and Northern Communities
Maps
Claims and Treaties
- First Nations Land Management Initiative
- Historical Indian Treaties
- Indian Lands History in Quebec
- Treaties and Comprehensive Land Claims in Canada
Heritage and traditions
- Aboriginal Peoples circa 1630
- Aboriginal Peoples circa 1740
- Aboriginal Peoples circa 1823
- The Spatial and Historical Evolution of Iqaluit
Languages
Policy, Research and Statistics
- Aboriginal Communities and Minerals and Metals Activities
- Aboriginal Communities and Minerals and Metals Activities - On-line Map
- Aboriginal Population, 2001
- Indian Reserve Boundaries
- Inuit Population, 1996
- Métis Population, 1996
- North American Indian Population, 1996
- Percentage of Aboriginal Population by Census Division, 2001
