Demographics: Walpole Island has approximately 3000 citizens with about 2,200 being year round residents.
Language
Linguistic Affiliation: |
Algonkian |
|
Mother Tongue |
Ojibwa |
|
|
Pottawatomi |
|
Spoken Language |
English |
85% |
|
Aboriginal |
11% |
|
English & Aboriginal |
7% |
|
French & Other |
1% |
Nearly all of the households on
Walpole Island are directly or indirectly involved with hunting,
fishing and trapping activities. Recreational tourism is the number
one industry. The second largest is agriculture. The third ranking
sector is government services and the fastest growing.
The remainder are involved in
manufacturing, trade industries, transportation, communications and
other utility industries, and miscellaneous commercial activites.
Local facilites include an economic development and
industrial-training complex.
Unfortunately, during the
transitional seasons, unemployment rises to nearly 70% for the whole
reserve.
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