Fundy Connects! Summit

The 2022 inaugural Summit introduced the network concept to participants and reported on our Phase One findings, including identifying four priority issues: labour and training, infrastructure, housing and regenerative tourism development.

The outcome of the 2022 Summit was an action agenda for the newly-created Rural Upper Fundy Partnership that focused on addressing systemic housing, labour and infrastructure challenges, and designing a governance model and scope of work for the Partnership.

The three-day Summit was co-facilitated by Lisa Hrabluk, Jamie Gamble and Micha Fardy.

The 2022 Summit featured presentations from the following experts.

  • Dor Assia, project manager, Shorefast

  • Cecelia Brooks, Wabanaki Tree Spirits Tour, Canadian Rivers Institute and Mi’kmaw Wolastoqey Centre, University of New Brunswick

  • Emilie Comeau-Sinclair, executive director, Destination Canada

  • Jonathan Foster, executive director Gros Morne Institute for Sustainable Tourism

  • Rob Holmes, founder, GLP Films (Maine)

  • Jane McCulloch, principal, Terminus Consulting

  • Mike Overend, director of destination development and stewardship, Thompson Okanagan Tourism Association (TOTA)

  • Ellen Walker-Matthews, CEO, TOTA