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This article deals with community-based economic development actors' perceptions of the role played by Corporations de développement économique communautaire (CDEC) in Montreal's social cohesion. The research focuses on two CDECs, the Regroupement économique et social du Sud-Ouest (RESO) and the CDEC de Rosemont-Petite Patrie (CDEC-RPP). The conclusions reached by the study were validated and extended during a forum in which all the CDECs affiliated with the Regroupement des CDEC du Québec participated. The thesis supported in this article is that, since their institutionalization, CDECs have played an important role in the governance and social cohesion building of the city, as they were able to position themselves as both intermediaries and brokers. In the context of Montreal's urban development, both functions converge because of the existence of institutions fostering dialogue and interrelations between actors from different social classes, representing various and sometimes opposed economic interests.
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This paper summarizes a decade of archaeological research demonstrating evidence for periods of year-round Inuit occupation of the Quebec Lower North Shore in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Excavations at several winter villages replicate settlement patterns at sod house sites in central Labrador, including continuation of a traditional Inuit subsistence and domestic economy while incorporating European materials and artifacts. Finds at the Hare Harbour site on Petit Mécatina Island suggest active Inuit collaboration with a European (probably Basque) whaling and fishing station. The Hare Harbour site is a unique early instance of Inuit-European economic and social enterprise. In the early 1700s the Inuit occupation of the Quebec Lower North Shore came to an abrupt end due to economic competition and hostilities with European and Indian groups that forced Inuit to abandon the coast and retreat north to the core area of Inuit settlement on the central Labrador coast.
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112408.