Canada's changing North [[electronic resource] /] / edited and with and introduction by William C. Wonders

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782078203321
• Autore: Wonders William C.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2003]
• ISBN: 1-282-86136-0; 9786612861369; 0-7735-7132-9
• Edizione: [Rev. ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (470 p.)
• Collana: Carleton library ; ; no.55
• Altri autori (Persone): WondersWilliam C. <1924->
• Disciplina: 971.9/04
• Soggetti: SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography; Canada, Northern; Canada (Nord)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Defining the North -- A Circumpolar Index -- The Arctic Basin and the Arctic: Some Definitions -- Historical Perspectives -- The Identification of Vinland -- Early Geographical Concepts of the Northwest Passage -- Voyageurs’ Highway: The Geography and Logistics of the Canadian Fur Trade -- Fur Trading Posts in the Mackenzie Region up to 1850 -- The Sponsors of Canadian Arctic Exploration: 1844-1859 -- Albert Peter Low -- Discovery of Two Islands in Eastern Foxe Basin -- Success of the Plaisted Expedition -- The North in Canadian History -- Physical Nature -- How the Mackenzie River was Made -- Arctic Landforms -- Fluvial Processes in the High Arctic -- Climate and Zonal Divisions of the Boreal Forest Formation in Eastern Canada -- Organic Terrain and Geomorphology -- Permafrost Map of Canada -- Wind Chill in Northern Canada -- The Ecology of Snow -- Migrating Caribou: Barren-Ground Herds Face a Serious Threat to Survival -- Native Peoples -- The Fragments of Eskimo Prehistory -- Changing Patterns of Indian Trapping in the Canadian Subarctic -- Changing Settlement Patterns Amongst the Mackenzie Eskimos of the Canadian North Western Arctic -- Economic Resources -- About Our Untold Resources -- The ; Montferré Mining Region Labrador-Ungava -- Oil’s Last Frontier -- Arctic Petroleum Potential -- The Forests of Northern Canada -- Reindeer Resource in the Mackenzie Delta–1968 -- Remarks on Eskimo Sealing and the Harp Seal Controversy -- Transportation and Communications -- Transportation as a Factor in Northern Development -- Transportation and the Settlement Frontier in the Mackenzie Valley Area -- Communications in the North -- Regionalism and Northern Settlements -- An Attempt to Regionalize the Canadian North -- “Regions” and Identity in the North: Some Notes -- Settlement Types and Community Organization in Northern Canada -- The Northern Urban Scene -- Problems of the North -- Bewildered Hunters in the 20th Century -- The Polar Continental Shelf Project -- Boundary Problems Relating to the Sovereignty of the Canadian Arctic -- Canada’s Northern Policy: Retrospect and Prospect -- The Ecology of the North: Knowledge is the Key to Sane Development -- The Contributors -- Note on the Editor -- The Carleton Library
• Sommario/riassunto: Among the many recent developments explored in Canada's Changing North is the legal recognition of aboriginal rights by the Canadian state, which has led directly to significant increases in their political and economic power. It also examines how economic development, which has long focused on non-renewable natural resources, particularly minerals, has grown to an enormous scale. Development of arctic oil and gas, which hinges on world supplies and national and international politics, has meant major changes across the North. Some of the new national parks in the Canadian North are already under threat from mineral development. Northern tourism has made it possible for a wide variety of affluent visitors to visit hitherto remote areas, affecting the ecology. The final selection, on northern challenges, discusses critical issues such as the impact of climatic change, the social needs (e.g. housing, education) of a rapidly increasing aboriginal population, environmental protection of unique regions, and defence of Arctic sovereignty. Of the sixty-two readings in this edition, forty-one are new.