Government of Canada supports tourism in northern Manitoba

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The Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Tourism, Official Languages and La Francophonie today announced funding through the Churchill Region Economic Development fund (CRED) with a focus on tourism opportunities.

Funding Amounts:  
Proponent Amount
Boreal Discovery Centre $136,000
Gangler’s North Seal River – Canoe Trail Mapping $41,000
Merit Motion Pictures – March of the Polar Bears Film $150,000
Spirit Way & Boreal Discovery Centre – Wolf Centre of Excellence $164,060
Churchill Cruises $108,690
Nanuk Operations – Nights Under Lights $55,479
Community Futures NCD $27,000
Frontiers North $25,000
Canadian Eskimo Dog Foundation $10,215
Tundra Inn $25,000
Churchill River Mushing $4,154
Nature First Tours $1,087
Wapusk Adventures $7,505
Aurora Inn $8,838
Great White Bear Tours $21,916
Seaport Inn $25,000
Tundra Inn & Restaurant $75,000
Churchill St. Paul’s Anglican Church $30,000
Itsanitaq Museum $19,293
Total Funding: $935,238

Churchill and Region Economic Development Fund

  • The CRED Fund was developed in 2016 and has played a key role in addressing challenges facing the community through business supports that alleviated the increased cost of shipping goods, and consumer supports such as reducing the price of gasoline in the community.
  • CRED is delivered by Community Futures Manitoba with funding decisions made by an independent Management Committee including representation from key industry, private sector, community stakeholders, and northern Community Futures organizations.
  • The $4.6 million Fund was increased to $7.3 million in November 2017 to support economic recovery in response to the rail line closure in the spring of 2017.

This funding was originally announced by The Honourable Jim Carr, Minister of International Trade Diversification in a bundle of 40 CRED projects on Thursday, November 1, 2018, in Churchill.

 

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2018-11-13