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‘northern affairs-in the Macken- |

ESKIMO ART FINDS NEW OUTLET. =

John Patton of Ottawa, sales’ manager ‘for ‘the new fabrics architects and interior design-

tees which he {s acrelics te Dorset. They feature the na- tives’ natural _ surroundings. ers across Canada. The de-’ Mr. Patton said the fabricp signs, all award-winners, were won't be available for publie created } by Eskimos at Cape sale for some time vet.

division of.. Canadian....Arctic Producers Ltd.,. displays a ‘sample from a collection--of - fabrics featuring Eskimo—art

In Far North Co-operatives

eS JANE BECKER ‘Indian, paid out $10,000 in|houses which are provided with INUVIK, N.W.T. (CP): —/wages to its 20 workers ‘and /heat, water sewer services “These people are more ambi-|bought 11,000 muskrat. pelts through Inuvik’s enormously ex-

tious than we give them credit from trappers. pensive utilidor.

for;’’. says George Nordstrom.| The co-op has. been only one | Everyone else must build his “{ doubt if people in the south|factor in ‘Aklavik’s revival | ‘own house where he can, or rent with the same education would |from a forgotten town. In Fort/a 512,” nickname for the pre- |Resolution, the territorial gov- |fabricated 512-square-foot . gov- | Mr. Nordstrom, one of two jernment and others are bank- ernment. -dwelling for northern- eo - operative development. of- ling on co-ops_as the answer 00 ers’ in- the unserviced section © ficers with. the. department of jrevive a listless. settlement. lof the settlement.

Once an active trading cen- “The 512s were wet in sum

the Northwest itre, Fort Resolution began ~to mer, iced up in winter and were

zie district ‘of Territories

ies, was talking of the|die when transport activ-| j B B py fur garment co - operative jity moved east from the Slave | |s0 cold many children spent ai onnie rae jamas oy

_ formed three years ago among | River. to the

jlot of time in the hospital,” said

vast Mackenzie Charlie- Smith, an Alaska es

the Eskimos and Indians at Ak- jsystem. With no ready work f lavik, on the Mackenzie River (and little incentive, Resolution’s |, who started the housing delta. 700 residents, mostly Chipewyan | : He could have..been referring |Indians, ran up staggering wel- BUILD ON OUTSKIRTS

to all 22 northern co-operatives, |fare bills. Two years. ago the| The co - op was. originally stretching--from Grise Fiord on|territorial government hired an \formed to pool resources and the tip of Ellesmere ‘Island to jemployee of -the Co-Operative |buy lots near the utilidor. Told Fort Resolution, 60 miles north |Union of Canada to look for a Ithere was no such land avail- of the Alberta border. |solution. able, members decided to build

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Co-operatives, a decade old. are one of the | lumber products operation most encouraging © signs that|which now employs about 30 northern~ natives; tumbled” “trem (men. ‘One side result has been their traditional life by south-|a renewed building program in ern infiltration, ¢an be shown the settlement. A_ handicrafts | the route back to an economic- \co-op has also begun. ally productive life without de- | “We're still talking more pendence on a white employer. |than we're doing,” said Albert

Northern co-ops, some started |Vail, the co-op manager. ‘‘But by the northern affairs depart- you'd hardly recognize the old ment, some by the Co-Operative |town.”

PAYMENTS DROP ~

the natives themselves, now} Welfare payments in solu- produce and market everything |tion dropped to about half what from. handicrafts to lumber. To |they were a year. ago in Jan- date they have sold $2,000,000 juary, and the decline has ee worth of goods, and there is tinued.

no sign of a slackening pace. | At Inuvik, a group of Eskithos

The fur garment co-op, becun |started their own housing co-op | by the -northern affairs depart- because they were fed up with | ment, now is being bought from |the federal government's hous- the government by its mem. jing arrangements.

‘ : ; One of the houses is occupied

ANIMALS ABOUND iby Elija Menarik, manager of

They make parkas, mukluks the Inuvik radio station, and his and other fur garments and wife. ; small furry souvenirs from the; In this planned government muskrats, Arctic hares and wol-|community on the Mack verines that abound in the |50 miles from the Arctic Ocean, area. only people hired from,‘ “

most less than; The result was a sawmill and lanyway on the unserviced hill- |

\fill the long-range stated objec-

side above the town. | - Investigating- for the best deal, they bought pre-cut houses from yan Edmonton: firm which {in- | corporated several features to icombat Inuvik’s frigid climate: four-inch wall inslation. above- ground basements and a plastic | film below the flooring to keep

out ground cold.

Financing. is.-dove-through: the: government's Eskimo loan fund, which provides loans up _ to $7,000, repayble ‘over 15 years.

Today the co-op’s 20 houses are among the best-looking in Inuvik.. Members still hope the utilidor will Feach them some day.

Meanwhile co-ops continue to

tive of keeping northerners in the North until the real eco- nomic boom ves, so they will be around te share in it.

SPANISH USED DOGS

This year the co-op, managed |side’’ for government jopg,& by Fred Greenland, a Loucheux ‘eligible to rent goveii

The Spanish 4.conquistadores used war - armored by quilted cotton. id

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Mrs John MacKie of Howe . competition at the Dundas Bay was the first place winner Plowing Match yesterday. The im the ladies plow and tractor Queen of the Furrows, Doris

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