Parks Canada Management Planning: A Guide for Indigenous Leadership

This guide outlines what Indigenous governments can achieve through Parks Canada’s management planning process. It unpacks Parks Canada’s approach to collaborative management planning and clarifies key terminology.

This guide also provides examples of management plans that have created new pathways and opportunities for shared governance and Indigenous stewardship in heritage sites. It places particular emphasis on examples that are most likely to be of interest to Indigenous governments located in historic treaty contexts and who are working with Parks Canada in less formalized cooperative planning settings.

The Parks Canada Management Planning Guide was prepared by: Kai Bruce, with contributions from Peter Lariviere, Graham Dodds, Karen Haugen and Emily Martin.

This guide was also produced with support from Parks Canada Agency. The analysis and synthesis presented in this report are those of the author. This report does not necessarily in whole or in part reflect the view of the Government of Canada 

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An image of the cover of the Parks Canada Management Planning Guide, including the title, illustration of two people kneeling to harvest berries from a bush.