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The Feds don't help much for northern mining communities either. The north just gets shafted in general. Short term planning.
It used to be that, when a major deposit was discovered, a community was established there to support the mine. We have a long list of northern communities established this way: Sudbury, Yellowknife, Labrador City, Thompson... I could list dozens of northern centres that were kicked off due to a mine. Yellowknife is a great example of the community surviving mine shutdown and continuing onwards.
But new mining communities don't get established anymore -- not since at least the 60s. Now it's fly-in, fly-out, or similar rotations. No community gets established. No economic growth happens in the remoter regions. This affects more than just the mines -- but also native communities -- as it prolongs and reinforces economic isolation.
Actually, read into Thompson, MB. It's possibly the last major mining community to be established in Canada. There was initially a work camp on site, but the workers had a strike and demanded that they could live with their families, and school and such be built. Thompson popped up almost overnight as a real community. That just doesn't happen anymore. Sucks for miners. Sucks for economic development in the north. Sucks for carbon footprint.