E.A.DanbyAwards
The objective of the E.A. Danby Award is to recognize and honour municipalities that have
demonstrated outstanding achievement through innovation with respect to municipal
management activities or practices implemented for the purpose of delivering improved
municipal programs and services.
This award is named in recognition of AMCTO’s first president, E.A. Danby, who was
instrumental in establishing the Association and its commitment to improvements in municipal
government through education, training and knowledge sharing.
Named in honour of AMCTO’s founder and first president, the E.A. Danby Award is a tiered award program recognizing
municipalities for projects demonstrating implementation excellence in the categories of municipal finance, municipal
administration and the implementation of legislation. Awards and Certificates of Merit are presented annually within each
of the following two tiers:
Municipalities with a population of less than 20,000;
Municipalities with a population of 20,000 or more.
In the category of Municipal
Administration
(Population 20,000 or more)
City of Thunder Bay – Walk a
Mile Film Project
T
he Walk A Mile Film Project, which premiered on
Feb. 6, 2014 in Thunder Bay, is a collaboration of the
City of Thunder Bay’s Aboriginal Liaison Unit with
Thunderstone Pictures, and is a series of five short
documentary films that are designed to educate and encour-
age frank conversations in our community about the reality
of the life and history of Aboriginal peoples both here and
across Canada. The films, which are the creation of award-
winning indigenous filmmaker Michelle Derosier, are each
15-17 minutes long and address subjects such as treaties, rac-
ism, violence against women, and the way forward.
The need for the films arose from the work of the
Aboriginal Liaison Unit and the recognition that both within
the Corporation and in the community at large there was
not a good, common understanding of the history and issues
impacting the Aboriginal community today. John Hannam,
the City Clerk of Thunder Bay, and Michelle Derosier met
and began a discussion that led to the creation of the films
as a training tool to work towards correcting that gap in
understanding.
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