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     work”grant from the federal government. The 
     
     Transportation Co-op lasted for several years, but was 
     
     a co-op more in name than in fact. The Funeral Co-op 
     
     was in competition with the highly successful one in 
     
     the neighbouring area of Palmer Road, which quite a few 
     
     Tignish residents had joined; it was eventually decided 
     
     that one such co-op was enough for the combined area. 
     
     As for the Co—op Council, it was formed to be an umbrella 
     
     organization for the area, as well as to look into other 
     
     needs and organize co—ops to meet them; in fact, it met a 
     
     few times and then faded away, as no one had made any 
     
     suggestions worth following up. It has been replaced to 
     
     some extent by Tignish Initiatives, the aim of which is to 
     
     find new uses for buildings in the Village centre - like so 
     
     many larger communities, Tignish suffers from urban 
     
     sprawl and a degree of downtown decay. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Once the Acadians began to get funding for 
     
     projects as a result of the bilingualism and biculturalism 
     
     policies of the seventies, they too organized some co-ops 
     
     for their own needs. The first and most successful was 
     
     the Club Ti-Pa, a centre for traditional festivities, and other 
     
     projects ranging from step-dancing to genealogy. Like the 
     
     Health Centre and the other co-ops of the period, the Club 
     
     Ti-Pa members owned and managed a building - the old 
     
     Protestant Church, as it happened - and rented it to other 
     
     groups. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The other Acadian co—ops, such as a co-op 
     
     vegetable garden, were not successful; even those which 
     
     began well enough did not last long. 
     
    
   
   
    
     It is not necessary to point out the increased 
     
     independence that resulted from this expansion and 
     
     diversification of co-op principles. To quite an extent, it 
     
     balanced the loss of independence which had occurred