| Autore |
Wonders William C.
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| Edizione | [Rev. ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2003]
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (470 p.)
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| Disciplina |
971.9/04
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| Altri autori (Persone) |
WondersWilliam C. <1924->
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| Collana |
Carleton library
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| Soggetto topico |
SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography
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| ISBN |
1-282-86136-0
9786612861369
0-7735-7132-9
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| 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
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782078203321 |
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Canada's changing North [[electronic resource] /] / edited and with and introduction by William C. Wonders
