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CONTENTS


  • 1.   Introduction 1

  • 2.   A Social Timeline – How And Where Arctic Communities Developed 5

  • 3.   Whaling 21

  • 4.   The Fur Companies 31
    1. 4.1   The Influence of Fur Fashions 31
    1. 4.2   The Hudson's Bay Company 35
    1. 4.3   Revillon Frères 42
    1. 4.4   Eastern Companies 48
    1. 4.5   Western Companies 54

  • 5.   The Missionaries67

  • 6.   Sovereignty Activities73
    1. 6.1   The Police in the Arctic 73
    1. 6.2   The Eastern Arctic Patrol 81

  • 7.   Routes to the Arctic 87
    1. 7.1   The Eastern Approaches 87
    1. 7.2   The Road to Chisasibi 90
    1. 7.3   Down the Pagwachuan 92
    1. 7.4   The Many Routes to the Mackenzie River 95
    1. 7.5   From the Bay to Lake Winnipeg 106
    1. 7.6   Around Point Barrow 108

  • 8.   Canada’s Arctic Port 111
    1. 8.1   Politics and the Port 112
    1. 8.2   Building the Railway 113
    1. 8.3   Where to Build the Port? 116
    1. 8.4   Building the Port 120
    1. 8.5   The Port of Churchill 145

  • 9.   Resource Extraction 153
    1. 9.1   All is Not Gold that Shineth 154
    1. 9.2   Mica, Graphite and Canadian Sovereignty 158
    1. 9.3   Minerals & Lake Harbour 159
    1. 9.4   North Rankin Nickel Mine 160
    1. 9.5   The Mines of Deception Bay 168
    1. 9.6   Nanisivik – Canada’s First Community Mine 179
    1. 9.7   Polaris – Canada’s High Arctic Mine 186
    1. 9.8   Meadowbank & Meliadine – Arctic Gold 191
    1. 9.9   Oil & Gas Exploration, Development & Shipping 198
    1. 9.10   Mines In Development 212
    1. 9.11   Artisanal Coal Mining at Pond Inlet 217
    1. 9.12   Role of the mv Arctic 218

  • 10.   Defence and Deterrence – America Moves into the Arctic 223

  • 11.   Annual Sealift 241
    1. 11.1   Introduction 241
    1. 11.2   The Years of Sail 242
    1. 11.3   Steam Before WWI 258
    1. 11.4   From WWI to WWII 264
    1. 11.5   Years of Change 1940 – 1970 282
    1. 11.6   From the 1970’s to Modern Times 294
    1. 11.7   James Bay 321
    1. 11.8   Companies and Fleets 325

  • Acknowledgements349
  • Annexes351
  • Resources and Bibliography 527
  • Indices 555