cbe report final_hr - Haliburton County Community Cooperative Inc

CONCLUSION
Future Research
This section is key for the future work with other students. Some of the
challenges were the area to be researched was very large to complete as a single person.
It was difficult finding where to start without putting too much time into one area. It
would have be more efficient and effective to choose one township to focus on for a more
in depth analysis. Over all, there is a lot of potential in the area of intangible sites that can
be accessed and developed on through oral history research as well as archival study. Also
to have a team of two people per study area would work well for varied perceptions,
insights and methods.
Cardiff and Bicroft in particular were very difficult to research as Cardiff
township refers to the Township as well as the Hamlet. Oral history reasearch, archives
and intangible sites are going to be invaluable in the next stage of research.
It was great to have a partner to conduct the site visits with and share ideas
of tourism potential. We both agreed that a fun way to build on the second stage of
research would be to map some intangible sites and create geo caches there with some
stories about the area – perhaps a tape recording of a story being shared by a local?
Another idea may be to make a series of caches with stories at various sites throughout
the Municipality, much like that of the GEOTRAIL program referenced earlier. There is
great potential here.
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