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Canadian Geographic<\/em> on a project to map Nitassinan<\/a>, the ancestral homeland of the Innu in Labrador and eastern Quebec. \u201cIt started with a few illustrated maps for two small schools. Two printed editions, one giant floor map in-the-making, and layers upon layers of watercolour later, the Nitassinan map project is grabbing attention across Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Canadian Geographic on a project to map Nitassinan, the ancestral homeland of the Innu in Labrador and eastern Quebec. \u201cIt started with a few illustrated maps for two small schools. Two printed editions, one giant… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[131,698,1510,818,701],"class_list":["post-1790674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-education","tag-canada","tag-indigenous","tag-innu","tag-labrador","tag-quebec","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1786523,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/11\/an-interactive-map-of-the-quebec-election-results\/","url_meta":{"origin":1790674,"position":0},"title":"An Interactive Map of the Quebec Election Results","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"1 November 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"CBC News's interactive map of last month's provincial election in Quebec gives us a detailed look at who won each poll, and by how much (percentages, not raw numbers), and compares those results with those from the 2014 election. 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