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Canada's Changing North
When Canada's Changing North was first published in 1971, it quickly became a popular and reliable overview of the geography and culture of the Canadian North. In the three decades since it first appeared, great changes have occurred in this huge region that makes up two thirds of Canada's total area. This revised and expanded edition provides a new generation with a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the Canadian North and outlines how this region has become increasingly integrated into both the Canadian national fabric and the world. the legal recognition of aboriginal rights by the Canadian state, which has led directly to significant increases in their political and economic po...
The Road to Nunavut
A description of the transformation of the Inuit of the eastern Canadian arctic from a hunting and trapping society to a sedentary population tied to the economy of southern Canada and striving for self-government.
Canada's Arctic Islands
Account by the leader of a government expedition to establish police posts, etc. at Craig Harbour, Ellesmere Island and Pond Inlet, Baffin Island in 1922.
Geology, Simplified Tectonic Assemblage Map of the Canadian Arctic Islands, Northwest Territories?Nunavut
This map and geodatabase illustrate the geology of the Canadian Arctic Islands including all lands north and west of Baffin Island. Major features include high-grade Archean and Paleoproterozoic metasedimentary and granitoid rocks of Ellesmere and lands to south and southwest. To the north and west is Cambrian to Devonian cover that grades to deformed rocks of the Ellesmerian Orogen on Ellesmere Island and in the central and western Arctic Islands. The Ellesmerian Orogen features Devonian molasse detached on Ordovician evaporites, outer shelf carbonates of Ellesmere Island detached in the Neoproterozoic, deep water strata including volcanics and turbidites, and Pearya terrane, accreted to ancestral North America in the Silurian. Unconformable on all this are Carboniferous to Paleogene strata of Sverdrup Basin which features a second deformation belt of Paleogene age, the Eurekan Orogen. Youngest rocks are Neogene and widely represented in the western Arctic Islands from Meighen to Banks islands.
Northwest Territories
An introduction to geography, history, economy, major cities, and interesting sites of Canada's provinces and territories.
Arctic Front
A hard-hitting, timely, and provocative book about the history and future of the Canadian Arctic. With passion and sharp words, Arctic Front confronts Canada’s longstanding neglect of the Far North and outline what needs to be done to protect our national interest. Through a lively and engaging history of the region, Arctic Front reveals how Canadians and their governments have: ignored this region for generations expanded Canadian sovereignty over the past hundred years by reacting to other countries’ challenges become the least effective of all Circumpolar nations in responding to the needs of the Arctic neglected our obligations to the North, including a failure to capitalize on the h...
Northwest Territories
Northwest Territories is an insightful and entertaining introduction to its people, culture, geography, history, and economy. The easy-to-read text - by Northwest Territories resident Richard Daitch - is complimented with beautiful colour photography, taking readers on a fascinating tour of the territory.
Politics of the Northwest Passage
Series of articles which summarize issues involved in Canada's claim to sovereignty over the Northwest Passage arranged in four parts: the setting; international arctic politics; Canadian arctic politics; conclusions.
Field Research on Axel Heiberg Island, N.W.T., Canada
Includes a brief description of the station on Axel Heiberg Island, a bibliography of research undertaken on Axel Heiberg Island with emphasis on the Expedition Fiord region, a comprehensive listing of field parties which have worked from the station, and a data report on Colour Lake. Appendices include lake ice and permafrost data from the McGill Subarctic Research Station at Schefferville, Quebec.
