Canadian Heritage committee  I really liked your representative for tourism, who I thought had a perfectly good idea. I would go back to Katimavik. I have some experience on the ground with Katimavik. It's a super program and a really good idea. The only thing with the Katimavik program was that you were

Canadian Heritage committee  You can't hire and you can't fire volunteers, so it all depends on the quality of the volunteer you have at the time who can apply for the applications. The applications could be dumbed down a whole lot. They are pretty elaborate pieces of paper, which get shoved away because pe

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. I would definitely say so, especially for small museums or volunteer operations. Rural establishments don't usually have access to lawyers to read these things and get us on the right track, so a simpler form would be very nice.

Canadian Heritage committee  The more the better.

Canadian Heritage committee  We're in the basement. You come downstairs, but we're not accessible by wheelchair, which is one of the things we are working toward trying to accomplish but it hasn't been forthcoming yet. We don't own the building and it's not a usable place for students, so the community gets

Canadian Heritage committee  No, we have a nice set-up. We have our rent and our heat free—maybe sometimes too much heat—but we also have our hydro, which is quite nice.

Canadian Heritage committee  There is a Macdonald Consolidated School in Nova Scotia. It's down in the valley and it's used as a community centre.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes.

Canadian Heritage committee  That's a loaded question. We were able to access federal funds for the millennium, which is rare for our community. We were able to partner that with funding we received from the Macdonald Stewart Foundation. Through that partnership we were able to do large structural jobs on ou

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, we do.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, it's all volunteers.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, but it would be really good if there were some sort of program that allowed for management, even management in the off season. Students can come from university at an earlier base, and we're hard pressed to get those 10- or 12-week students. That would be a big plus for rura

Canadian Heritage committee  We can do it at the drop of a hat. Last year for the 400th anniversary of Catons Island, which should have been taken on by various other groups because the river goes by us, we ended up jumping in and taking it on just because we felt it was too big an event to let go by. We did

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, we are. The school was built by William Macdonald, of tobacco fame, in 1904; it burned down in 1908 and was rebuilt by the community from the first storey up. It has kindergarten to grade 8, with just under 350 students. So we them as a primary source to test our stuff on.

Canadian Heritage committee  Good afternoon, my name is Judith Baxter. I'm very pleased to have been invited to discuss ideas for the celebration of Canada's 150th anniversary, especially from a rural point of view. I represent a small community museum, the John Fisher Memorial Museum, which is part of the