OXFORD COUNTY
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“Spark" Mentorships & Grants Program


​2021 Oxford County “Spark" Program Winners:

Aggie Armstrong
TOURISM IDEA: Contemporary Art Workshops
Mentor: Shannon McMullan (Owner & Curator of Perivale Gallery - Manitoulin Island)

Cheryl Haskett, Udderly Ridiculous
TOURISM IDEA: Experience Farm Life
Mentor: Jacob Murray (Director of Media & Marketing, Topsy Farms - Kingston region)
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Kelly Goodwin
TOURISM IDEA: Bike Hub
Mentor: Dr. Rachel Dodds (Director, Sustaining Tourism; Professor, Ted Rogers School of Hospitality and Tourism Management (Ryerson University)

Each will receive $3000, mentorship, and additional partner support to help them take their tourism initiatives to the next level. 
Virtual Pitch Session January 2021

Stay tuned to our social media channels for updates on their progress.

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The Tourism Innovation Lab is a program of Hackforge
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Central Canada Home Base 
Tourism Innovation Lab
c/o Hackforge
300 Ouellette Ave, Suite 210, Windsor, ON N9A 7B4
​​​[email protected]
647-948-5651 x 1
1-844-455-0325 (toll-free)

​Western Canada Home Base
Tourism Innovation Lab
c/o The Common
38016 Cleveland Ave, Squamish, BC V8B 0A1
[email protected]
647-948-5651 x 2
1-844-455-0325 (toll-free)

We respectfully acknowledge that our home base in Windsor-Essex sits on the traditional territory of the Three Fires Confederacy of First Nations, which is comprised of the Ojibwa, the Odawa, and the Potawatomi Peoples. We also respectfully acknowledge that our home base in Squamish sits on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples: Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam First Nations. We will honour this by collaborating with Indigenous-led organizations and businesses to support the advancement of Indigenous tourism in those regions and across Canada.​