ABSTRACT
Introduction The Canadian Wilderness Charter, an initiative of World Wildlife Fund Canada, suggests that conservationists and aboriginal people share common aims and objectives with regard to wilderness areas and wilderness use (Hummel, 1989:275). The broader Canadian public certainly subscribes to this view, one easily reinforced by the alliances formed between aboriginal people and environmental activists to create new parks in the far north, or to prevent the logging of old-growth forests in the provinces of Ontario and British Columbia.
