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Lafarge, Birch Island ink historic 50-year pact

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Michael Erskine
Author: Michael Erskine
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CEMENTING THE DEAL—Back row, left Lafarge senior lands manager Chris Galway, Kathleen Migwanabi, Whitefish River First Nation (WRFN) lands manager, Esther Osche, WRFN negotiator, Tyler Kahout, Lafarge director of operations, front row, Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing MP Carol Hughes, Mary Scannell, researcher, Tony Kitchemokman, one of Father George Gardner’s original hires at the terminal, Father George Gardner, Lafarge negotiator, WRFN Chief Rodney Nahwegahnow and David Redfern, Lafarge Eastern Division CEO. photo by Michael Erskine

WHITEFISH RIVER FN—The Lafarge Whitefish River terminal has seen a tremendous amount of activity over the past 52 years and, thanks to the hard work and determination of the negotiators for Whitefish River First Nation and the cement company giant Lafarge, a new 50-year memorandum of agreement (MOU) was signed during the annual Lafarge fish […]

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Michael Erskine
Michael Erskine
Michael Erskine BA (Hons) is a staff writer at The Manitoulin Expositor. He received his honours BA from Laurentian University in 1987. His former lives include underground miner, oil rig roughneck, early childhood educator, elementary school teacher, college professor and community legal worker. Michael has written several college course manuals and has won numerous Ontario Community Newspaper Awards in the rural, business and finance and editorial categories.
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