Social Economy Portraits

Entry Island is ensuring its long-term viability by creating a nonprofit to oversee its tourism infrastructure.

Most of us have tools we rarely use which take up space in our closets, garages, and basements. A group of social economy entrepreneurs in Rimouski took a different approach: creating a “library of things” called L’Outillerie.

Fishermen in the Magdalen Islands have found success with the cooperative format, earning more for their products and reducing costs. 

Based in Ormstown in the Montérégie West region, The Gleaner, a newspaper in existence since 1863, pivoted to an innovative community nonprofit format when the media chain owning it wanted to shut down the publication.

Tewkesbury residents formed their own cooperative to manage snowplowing and have since expanded into many other services for their rural area.

Previously at the risk of closing, a nonprofit was created to keep New Carlisle’s thrift shop open and maintain the availability of everyday goods.