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An application was received from the
Bill Reid Centre for Northwest Coast Studies at Simon Fraser University
requesting a grant to assist with the cost of creating: an Android version of
an iOS Indigenous walking tour mobile app, pre-kindergarten to grade 12
educational resources to accompany walking tours (e.g., art, place names, and
plant knowledge), and an augmented reality component to allow users to hear
and view Indigenous names and spellings layered over the landscape through
the camera of their mobile device. Portion of the grant would be used to
promote availability of the free mobile app and to explore the use of
Bluetooth beacons to notify visitors to Burnaby Mountain Park that the
application is available. Overall aim of the project is to properly
acknowledge the unceded territories of the Coast Salish people on which Simon
Fraser University is located.
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