Canada's Western Arctic
Canada's Western Arctic

Author: Western Arctic Handbook Committee

Publisher: Inuvik, N.W.T. : The Committee

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9780968791004

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ANNOTATION: A 352 page travel guide to Canada's Western Arctic, an area of Canada between the Arctic Circle and the North Pole. The book includes over 300 colour photographs and maps. Topics include tripplanning, accommodations, weather, daily life in Canada's Western Arctic, events, outdoor activities, national and territorial parks, communities, the people, land and water, and plants and animals. This book has the benefit of over one hundred contributors, including local residents with a lifetime of experiences to share, and academics who have devoted their careers to studying the area. There are daily jet flights between Edmonton International Airport and Inuvik, the largest community in Canada's Western Arctic, via Yellowknife and Norman Wells, and turbo prop flights three days a week between Alaska and Inuvik, via Whitehorse and Dawson City. There are also air services between Inuvik and other communities in Canada's Western Arctic.

White Fox and Icy Seas in the Western Arctic
White Fox and Icy Seas in the Western Arctic

Author: John R. Bockstoce

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2018-03-20

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 030023516X

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How the fur trade changed the North and created the modern Arctic: “The history is fascinating.” —Anchorage Daily News In the early twentieth century, northerners lived and trapped in one of the world’s harshest environments. At a time when government services and social support were minimal or nonexistent, they thrived on the fox fur trade, relying on their energy, training, discipline, and skills. John R. Bockstoce, a leading scholar of the Arctic fur trade who also served as a member of an Eskimo whaling crew, explores the twentieth-century history of the Western Arctic fur trade to the outbreak of World War II, covering an immense region from Chukotka, Russia, to Arctic Alaska and the Western Canadian Arctic. This period brought profound changes to Native peoples of the North. To show its enormous impact, the author draws on interviews with trappers and traders, oral and written archival accounts, research in newspapers and periodicals, and his own field notes from 1969 to the present. A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Honorary Mention, 2020 William Mills Prize for Non-fiction Polar Books “An engaging story that is chock-full of fascinating anecdotes.” —Arctic “Invaluable . . . future generations of historians will refer to it.” —Canadian Journal of History “A compelling narrative . . . Bockstoce proves once again why he is the definitive source of all things related to Arctic maritime history.” —Sea History Includes photographs

Landscapes and Landforms of Western Canada
Landscapes and Landforms of Western Canada

Author: Olav Slaymaker

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-12-01

Total Pages: 439

ISBN-13: 3319445952

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This is the only book to focus on the geomorphological landscapes of Canada West. It outlines the little-appreciated diversity of Canada’s landscapes, and the nature of the geomorphological landscape, which deserves wider publicity. Three of the most important geomorphological facts related to Canada are that 90% of its total area emerged from ice-sheet cover relatively recently, from a geological perspective; permafrost underlies 50% of its landmass and the country enjoys the benefits of having three oceans as its borders: the Arctic, Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Canada West is a land of extreme contrasts — from the rugged Cordillera to the wide open spaces of the Prairies; from the humid west-coast forests to the semi-desert in the interior of British Columbia and from the vast Mackenzie river system of the to small, steep, cascading streams on Vancouver Island. The thickest Canadian permafrost is found in the Yukon and extensive areas of the Cordillera are underlain by sporadic permafrost side-by-side with the never-glaciated plateaus of the Yukon. One of the curiosities of Canada West is the presence of volcanic landforms, extruded through the ice cover of the late Pleistocene and Holocene epochs, which have also left a strong imprint on the landscape. The Mackenzie and Fraser deltas provide the contrast of large river deltas, debouching respectively into the Arctic and Pacific oceans.

Acts of Occupation
Acts of Occupation

Author: Janice Cavell

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 0774818670

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Sheds new light on the early period of the development of Canadian Arctic policy, showing how a single explorer fueled unfounded paranoia about Denmark's designs on the north and served as a catalyst for Canada's active administrative occupation of the arctic.

Marine Fishes of Arctic Canada
Marine Fishes of Arctic Canada

Author: Brian W. Coad

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2018-01-01

Total Pages: 633

ISBN-13: 1442647108

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Marine Fishes of Arctic Canada is an accessible and up-to-date study on the diverse marine fish population existing in Canadian waters.

White Fox and Icy Seas in the Western Arctic
White Fox and Icy Seas in the Western Arctic

Author: John R. Bockstoce

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2018-03-20

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 0300221797

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- OTHER PUBLICATIONS BY JOHN R. BOCKSTOCE -- CONTENTS -- Foreword by William Barr -- Preface -- Part 1 INTRODUCTION -- 1. Fort Ross: Founding and Abandonment, 1937 to 1948 -- 2. White Fox: From the Trapper to the Retail Customer -- Part 2 DEVELOPMENT OF THE WESTERN ARCTIC FUR TRADE TO 1914 -- 3. The Advance of the Maritime Trade in the Bering Strait Region -- 4. Expansion of the Trade in Northern Alaska and Western Arctic Canada -- Part 3 HEYDAY OF THE WESTERN ARCTIC FUR TRADE, 1914 TO 1929 -- 5. Revolution and Civil War on the Chukchi Peninsula -- 6. Growth of the Trade in Northern Alaska -- 7. Competition among Traders in Western Arctic Canada -- Part 4 DECLINE OF THE WESTERN ARCTIC FUR TRADE, 1929 TO CA. 1950 -- 8. State Ownership of the Trade on the Chukchi Peninsula -- 9. Contraction of Trade in Northern Alaska -- 10. Toward Monopoly Control in Western Arctic Canada -- Chronology -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y

Stefansson, Dr. Anderson and the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918
Stefansson, Dr. Anderson and the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918

Author: Stuart E. Jenness

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 1772824186

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The first comprehensive account of one of the great sagas of Arctic exploration and discovery, the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913–1918, led by the ethnologist/explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson and the zoologist Dr. Rudolph M. Anderson. There are details of the Expedition’s successes and tragedies, including the discovery of all but one large island north of the Canadian mainland, the accumulation of considerable scientific information and valuable collections, and the personal feud of the Expedition’s two leaders. Four appendices list Expedition personnel, fifty-three geographical sites in the Arctic named after them, locations of their diaries and collected specimens, and the thirteen government volumes arising from the Expedition.

Canada and the Changing Arctic
Canada and the Changing Arctic

Author: Franklyn Griffiths

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

Published: 2011-11-10

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1554584140

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Global warming has had a dramatic impact on the Arctic environment, including the ice melt that has opened previously ice-covered waterways. State and non-state actors who look to the region and its resources with varied agendas have started to pay attention. Do new geopolitical dynamics point to a competitive and inherently conflictual “race for resources”? Or will the Arctic become a region governed by mutual benefit, international law, and the achievement of a widening array of cooperative arrangements among interested states and Indigenous peoples? As an Arctic nation Canada is not immune to the consequences of these transformations. In Canada and the Changing Arctic: Sovereignty, Security, and Stewardship, the authors, all leading commentators on Arctic affairs, grapple with fundamental questions about how Canada should craft a responsible and effective Northern strategy. They outline diverse paths to achieving sovereignty, security, and stewardship in Canada’s Arctic and in the broader circumpolar world. The changing Arctic region presents Canadians with daunting challenges and tremendous opportunities. This book will inspire continued debate on what Canada must do to protect its interests, project its values, and play a leadership role in the twenty-first-century Arctic. Forewords by Senator Hugh Segal and former Minister of Foreign Affairs and of National Defence Bill Graham.