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Canadian Community Development
In Canada, community economic development became a practical means for strengthening com-munities as part of the cooperative movement of the early 20th century. Canadian cooperatives involved groups of people, often farmers, who joined together to share resources and information and pooled their produce to reduce costs, avoid needless competition, and cut out middlemen.
One university-sponsored community development effort was the Antigonish Cooperative Movement in Nova Scotia, Canada, assisted by St. Francis Xavier University. Beginning in the 1930s, Xavier University provided training programs in community development, working within an adult education framework through group discussions aimed at identifying the causes of economic problems, empowering people, and encouraging them to organize for change
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