ENTERPRISE
A year-long project to create a historical record of Enterprise concluded on April 26.
Amy Mercredi, president of the Enterprise Senior Society, stands in front of Footprints of Enterprise – a display of photographs and news articles – at the hamlet’s council chambers. - Paul Bickford/NNSL photo |
Now the question becomes what to do with the material collected.
The Enterprise Senior Society launched the initiative last year and has collected binders full of news stories and community photos dating back to the mid-1990s. Plus, there are boxes of council minutes going back to the 1970s.
The information has also been scanned into a computer.
"If anyone wants to do research on anything, they can just go into our computer," said Amy Mercredi, president of the Enterprise Senior Society.
Mercredi is pleased with the results of the project titled Footprints of Enterprise.
"I think it was awesome," she said.
The material is currently displayed at the hamlet hall, where council holds its meetings.
Mercredi would like all the material moved to the former visitor information centre and for it to become a year-round Enterprise Information Resource Centre.
"We have a dream, but we don't know if it will be a reality," she said.
The idea will be discussed on April 29 at the annual general meeting of the Enterprise Senior Society.
If society members think the material should be moved to the old visitor information centre, the idea will
have to be presented to the council of the Hamlet of Enterprise.
Currently, a tots program operates in the old visitor information centre.
Mercredi said if the historical information is
moved to that location, it would require operational funding, perhaps from the hamlet, the GNWT or the federal government's New Horizons for Seniors Program.
New Horizons, which is a program of the
Department of Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, provided $24,880 in funding for the one-year project.
It is also possible the collected material might have to stay at the hamlet hall or be relocated to the library of the Enterprise Community Centre.
However, the information would have to be stored at the library, Mercredi noted.
"I feel for people to know that we have it. We need our own building."
She also hopes more historical records can continue to be collected.
"There's a lot of material out there."
