Our
Next MEETING
574th Meeting
January 14, 2025
ANNUAL
GENERAL MEETING
1. Minutes of the 2024 Annual General Meeting.
2. Report of the Treasurer.
3. Report of the Nominating Committee and Election
of Officers.
4. Other business.
5. Adjournment.
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OUR NEXT SPEAKER
Camille Slack
INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNITY FOOD
SECURITY IN THE INUVIALUIT SETTLEMENT REGION:
IMPACTS OF THE INUVIK-TUKTOYAKTUK HIGHWAY
Food security remains a
persistent obstacle for Arctic communities, with
76% of Inuit aged fifteen and over in Inuit
Nunangat experiencing some level of food
insecurity. In response to challenges of
geography, environment and sociology, alongside
the need to increase access to resources and
create opportunities for economic growth, road
infrastructure development is increasingly
favoured in the North. One example is the
Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway (ITH). Camille will
examine local perspectives on the impacts of the
ITH, including key trends connected to food
access, harvesting, travel, and community
well-being.
Born in
Elora, Ontario, Camille Slack holds B.A.,
B.Ed. and M.A. degrees from Queen’s University.
She has worked in different capacities with
several northern education organizations,
including the Dechinta Centre for Research and
Learning in Yellowknife and the Students on Ice
Foundation in Gatineau, Quebec. Currently, Camille
is a Ph.D. student in Geography at the University
of Ottawa. Her research studies form the basis of
her talk, which follows the Annual General
Meeting.
The meeting
will be held in the Beaver Lounge on the ground
floor of the Warrant Officers’ and Sergeants’
Mess, 4 Queen Elizabeth Driveway, Ottawa. The Mess
sits alongside Lisgar Collegiate, facing the
Rideau Canal, and is accessible from the Driveway
just south of the Laurier Bridge. Parking is
available in front of the Mess and in adjacent
lots and is free. The meeting begins at 2000 hrs
and the bar will be available from 1930 hrs. As
always, guests are welcome.
Members are reminded that membership dues for
2025 are now due.
Next meetings:
Jan 27 Karen Hamre: The
Northwest Territories Protected Areas Strategy
(virtual meeting on Zoom)
Feb 11 David
Pantalony: Scientific instruments in the Arctic
from the Ingenium collection
Mar 11 Michelle
Gillis: Inuit self-determination in research and
marine governance
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Thomas Frisch
Secretary
613 725 2221; tfrisch@sympatico.ca
NEW!
Two Zoom sessions are planned
for the 2024-2025 Season. They will be aimed at
our out-of-town members but would be open to our
entire membership.
At the first of these Zoom
meetings, Karen LeGresley Hamre, in Yellowknife,
will speak on the NWT Protected Areas Strategy
(PAS). Her talk is scheduled for Monday, January
27, 2025, at 7:00 pm Mountain Time (9:00 pm
Eastern Time).
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SPEAKERS
PROGRAMME
2024-2025
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October 8 Adam Coombs
The
Directorate of History and
Heritage (DHH)
“The RCAF in the Arctic”
November
12
Peter Croal
National
Healing Forest
Initiative
“HMCS Labrador: the
70th anniversary of her maiden
voyage”
December
10
Jean Holloway
University of
Ottawa
“Climate change,
permafrost and forest
fires”
January
14
AGM and
speaker Camille Slack
University of Ottawa
“Food
Security Impacts of
the
Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk
Highway”
January
27
Karen LeGresley Hamre
Yellowknife,
NWT
"The Northwest Territories Protected
Areas Strategy" (Zoom
session)
February
11 David
Pantalony
Ingenium:
Canada's
Museums of
Science and
Innovation
"Scientific
Instruments in the
Arctic: Stories from
the Ingenium
Collections"
March 11
Michelle Hovak Gillis and Stephen
Van Dine
Inuit
Circumpolar
Council
(Canada)
"Qanittaq
The Clean Arctic
Shipping Initiative"
April
8
Anne Barker
National
Research
Councils
The
Canada-Inuit Nunangat-United
Kingdom Research Programme
(CINUK)"
April
24 Annual Banquet with speaker
(TBD)
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