Abstract
AbstractCanada's North is a peripheral area. Extractive industry is typically envisaged as path to regional development. This may prove true but not through the emergence of forward and backward linkages and other ‘spread’ effects in the way usually anticipated. The Northern Coalition Corporation is an alliance of Indigenous fisheries‐based enterprises in Canada's Eastern Arctic and Labrador. While fish is an important export, it is the reinvestment of profits from this staple in other activities which is helping to change the current pattern of path dependence and is an important driver of change. This paper provides a number of examples of this process and evidence of the ways in which Northern Indigenous community‐focused organizations in the region are helping extract themselves from their marginality.
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