Fur Trade Canoe Routes of Canada/Then and Now

Fur Trade Canoe Routes of Canada/Then and Now

Author: Eric W. Morse

Publisher:

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13:

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Defines historical fur-trade canoe routes, linking them where necessary with modern landmarks and roads, and describing their general condition today where they have been changed.


Canada's Changing North

Canada's Changing North

Author: William C. Wonders

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 9780773526402

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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.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.


Cache Lake Country: Or, Life in the North Woods

Cache Lake Country: Or, Life in the North Woods

Author: John J. Rowlands

Publisher: The Countryman Press

Published: 2017-04-11

Total Pages: 510

ISBN-13: 1581574924

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The classic chronicle of life and self-reliance in the great Northern Forest, reissued for its many fans “Cache Lake Country is a gem for many reasons—a simple narrative, the ways in which it conveys the work-a-day joys and exertions of life in the wilderness, the woodscraft techniques it illustrates, and the slow and pleasurable way in which the soul of a serene man is revealed.” —The New York Times Over half a century ago, John Rowlands set out by canoe into the wilds of Canada to survey land for a timber company. After paddling alone for several days, he came upon "the lake of my boyhood dreams," which he named Cache Lake because there was stored the best that the north had to offer?timber for a cabin; fish, game, and berries to live on; and the peace and contentment he felt he could not live without. This is his story, containing both folklore and philosophy, with wisdom about the woods and the demand therein for inventiveness. It includes directions for making moccasins, stoves, shelters, outdoor ovens, canoes, and hundreds of other ingenious and useful gadgets.


Canoe Atlas of the Little North

Canoe Atlas of the Little North

Author: Jonathan Berger

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781550464962

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The Little North, north of Superior between Lake Winnipeg and James Bay, is a historic area including over 20 major lake and river system. This oversized atlas reviews the area's geography and canoe routes and features 50 annotated topographical maps.


Listening to the Fur Trade

Listening to the Fur Trade

Author: Daniel Robert Laxer

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2022-04-05

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 0228009812

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As fur traders were driven across northern North America by economic motivations, the landscape over which they plied their trade was punctuated by sound: shouting, singing, dancing, gunpowder, rattles, jingles, drums, fiddles, and – very occasionally – bagpipes. Fur trade interactions were, in a word, noisy. Daniel Laxer unearths traces of music, performance, and other intangible cultural phenomena long since silenced, allowing us to hear the fur trade for the first time. Listening to the Fur Trade uses the written record, oral history, and material culture to reveal histories of sound and music in an era before sound recording. The trading post was a noisy nexus, populated by a polyglot crowd of highly mobile people from different national, linguistic, religious, cultural, and class backgrounds. They found ways to interact every time they met, and facilitating material interests and survival went beyond the simple exchange of goods. Trust and good relations often entailed gift-giving: reciprocity was performed with dances, songs, and firearm salutes. Indigenous protocols of ceremony and treaty-making were widely adopted by fur traders, who supplied materials and technologies that sometimes changed how these ceremonies sounded. Within trading companies, masters and servants were on opposite ends of the social ladder but shared songs in the canoes and lively dances during the long winters at the trading posts. While the fur trade was propelled by economic and political interests, Listening to the Fur Trade uncovers the songs and ceremonies of First Nations people, the paddling songs of the voyageurs, and the fiddle music and step-dancing at the trading posts that provided its pulse.


A Paddler's Guide to Ontario's Lost Canoe Routes

A Paddler's Guide to Ontario's Lost Canoe Routes

Author: Kevin Callan

Publisher: Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781550464580

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A guide to trips along Ontario's lesser-known waterways -- includes detailed trip descriptions, maps of all access points, accurate portage lengths, tips, advice, history, folklore and more.


The Voyageur

The Voyageur

Author: Grace Lee Nute

Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press

Published: 2008-10-14

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 0873517067

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Nute's best-selling book portrays the indefatigable French-Canadian canoemen, whose labors were vital to the fur trade and whose influence reaches us through the colorful songs, place names, customs, and legends they left behind.