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Stefansson's contributions to arctic exploration are immense. He discovered some of the world's last major land masses in the Arctic and his hydrographic soundings outlined, for the first time, the continental shelf from Alaska to Prince Patrick Island and revealed the submarine mountains and valleys beneath the Beaufort Sea. While in the Arctic he lived with the Inuit, learning their habits and language, and kept a detailed record of early Inuit society. However, some of Stefansson's deeds, and the motives behind them, garnered less acclaim. In one instance Stefansson was accused of abandoning ship just before the ship was crushed in the ice, a heinous act for the leader of an expedition. O...
Muskox Land provides a meticulously researched and richly illustrated treatment of Canada's High Arctic as it interweaves insights from historiography, Native studies, ecology, anthropology, and polar exploration.
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Terra Nostra célèbre la cartographie du Canada et permet de partager cette incroyable ressource historique conservée dans les fonds de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada. Cette institution réunit un grand éventail de réalisations cartographiques, qui s'étendent des portulans préparés par les premiers explorateurs aux images aériennes récentes des floes (ou glacesflottantes) de la côte Est. Les cartes du Canada ont servi à plusieurs, et ont rempli de multiples fonctions. Elles ont entretenu, chez les premiers marchands et aventuriers, la promesse de gloire et de fortune ; les chefs d'armée s'en sont servis pour consolider leur mainmise territoriale ; les politiciens ont, grâce au...
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"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as vol. 26, no. 7, supplement.