When it comes to climate change, Canada needs more resilient outdoor spaces. Indigenous landscape architects can help

Indigenous landscape architecture firm SpruceLab incorporates Indigenous placemaking in its design plans, as was the case at Rotary Frenchman’s Bay West Park and Beachfront Park in Pickering, Ont.

While consulting on the Kitchener Indoor Recreational Complex, the team at landscape architecture firm SpruceLab, recommended planting a white oak tree between the indoor pool and an underground cistern for storm water.

It wasn’t just an aesthetic choice; the team was thinking about water, and water’s stories.

Historically, First Nations of the Great Lakes planted these trees in great swaths as both food forests and to guide people from the lake up to northern bodies of water.

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