CONTENTS
- 1. Introduction 1
- 2. A Social Timeline – How And Where Arctic Communities Developed 5
- 3. Whaling 21
- 4. The Fur Companies 31
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- 4.1 The Influence of Fur Fashions 31
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- 4.2 The Hudson's Bay Company 35
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- 4.3 Revillon Frères 42
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- 4.4 Eastern Companies 48
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- 4.5 Western Companies 54
- 5. The Missionaries67
- 6. Sovereignty Activities73
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- 6.1 The Police in the Arctic 73
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- 6.2 The Eastern Arctic Patrol 81
- 7. Routes to the Arctic 87
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- 7.1 The Eastern Approaches 87
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- 7.2 The Road to Chisasibi 90
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- 7.3 Down the Pagwachuan 92
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- 7.4 The Many Routes to the Mackenzie River 95
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- 7.5 From the Bay to Lake Winnipeg 106
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- 7.6 Around Point Barrow 108
- 8. Canada’s Arctic Port 111
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- 8.1 Politics and the Port 112
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- 8.2 Building the Railway 113
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- 8.3 Where to Build the Port? 116
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- 8.4 Building the Port 120
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- 8.5 The Port of Churchill 145
- 9. Resource Extraction 153
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- 9.1 All is Not Gold that Shineth 154
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- 9.2 Mica, Graphite and Canadian Sovereignty 158
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- 9.3 Minerals & Lake Harbour 159
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- 9.4 North Rankin Nickel Mine 160
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- 9.5 The Mines of Deception Bay 168
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- 9.6 Nanisivik – Canada’s First Community Mine 179
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- 9.7 Polaris – Canada’s High Arctic Mine 186
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- 9.8 Meadowbank & Meliadine – Arctic Gold 191
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- 9.9 Oil & Gas Exploration, Development & Shipping 198
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- 9.10 Mines In Development 212
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- 9.11 Artisanal Coal Mining at Pond Inlet 217
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- 9.12 Role of the mv Arctic 218
- 10. Defence and Deterrence – America Moves into the Arctic 223
- 11. Annual Sealift 241
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- 11.1 Introduction 241
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- 11.2 The Years of Sail 242
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- 11.3 Steam Before WWI 258
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- 11.4 From WWI to WWII 264
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- 11.5 Years of Change 1940 – 1970 282
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- 11.6 From the 1970’s to Modern Times 294
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- 11.7 James Bay 321
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- 11.8 Companies and Fleets 325
- Acknowledgements349
- Annexes351
- Resources and Bibliography 527
- Indices 555