Aboriginal Recreation, Leisure and the City of Calgary

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to understand the specific types of leisure and recreation opportunities that the City of Calgary can begin offering to Aboriginal Calgarians in order to counteract the many grave social and health issues facing the City’s Aboriginal people. Through the use of community driven research, City of Calgary — Aboriginal Services’ survey findings over a two-year period of time are used to make recommendations for specific physical education, physical activity, sport, recreation and, in particular, cultural activities, all of which can provide unique preventive strategies that are much more powerful and cost effective than reactive treatments.