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Product/Service Name: Land of Little Sticks Boreal Harvesters Association Company: Land of Little Sticks Boreal Harvesters Association ; 503 Sherritt Ave., Box 100 ; Ph: (204) 356-2418 ; Fax:(204) 356-8297 Welcome to our Website. We are a small non-profit organization in a former mining town. Five mines depleted their orebodies and shut down mining operations. With the mine closings, people of working age and their families moved out. Others remained and kept the community running. Lynn Lake still has modern facilities such as an airport with a 5000 foot runway, a Federal Post Office, Federal Police Force, hospital, hotel accommodations and other services. Miners and mining service personnel moved away. Indians native to the region and many from surrounding reservations moved into the community. Except for people in the service industry and public servants, people live in retirement, or on social welfare, and from treaty income or both. Our organization is trying to reintroduce people into the boreal forest in order for them to benefit from extra income and a better way of life by harvesting non-timber forest products. Some of our members received special introductory training and we received a government start-up grant. Today we try to earn our expenses. The use of the building is free and we pay no salaries. Our basic expenses are hydro and the website hosting cost. |
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