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Frontier Life: Borderlands, Settlement & Colonial Encounters

Printed books, government, legal and commercial documents, newspapers and magazines, maps, photographs, etc., dealing with the theme of the borderlands and colonization during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Includes 18 archival collections from the United States and Canada, including the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives (Archives of Manitoba) and thematic guides on First Nations, exploration, expeditions and travel.

Subjects: Borders, Colonialism, Exploration, Hudson’s Bay Company, Indigenous peoples, Primary Sources

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GEOBASE

Database featuring over 3 million references to journal articles and geoscience conference proceedings, including those in the fields of geography, earth sciences, ecology, geology, oceanography, and nature conservation. Boasts a rich controlled vocabulary accessible via a thesaurus that allows users to search by geographic region of the North and the Arctic. Also includes significant content on Indigenous studies.

Subjects: Conservation, Earth sciences, Ecology, Environmental sciences, Indigenous peoples

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Géocultures : Méthodologies russes sur l’Arctique

Collective essay on cultural methodologies on the Arctic in the context of Siberia. (Daniel Chartier, Dmitry Zamyatin, Ekaterina Romanova et Olga Lavrenova, Montréal, Imaginaire Nord, coll. «Isberg», 2020, 100 p. Translated from Russian by Marianna Samsonova.)

Subjects: Imaginary North, Research methodologies, Russia, Siberia

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GéoInfo – Territoire nordique (Gouvernement du Québec)

Compilation of data on Northern Quebec, some of which is freely accessible.

Subjects: Cartography, Geospatial data, Northern Quebec

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Handbook of the politics of the Arctic

A reference work devoted to contemporary geopolitical issues related to climate change, Indigenous Peoples, energy, borders, marine resources, and pollution.

Subjects: Borders, Climate change, Energy, geopolitics, Indigenous peoples

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Hidden in plain sight: contributions of Aboriginal peoples to Canadian identity and culture

This book offers an Indigenous perspective to Canadian and Aboriginal history, demonstrating the significant contributions Indigenous peoples have made and are making to the development of Canadian identity, politics, education, and culture, etc. (David Newhouse, Cora Voyageur, Daniel Beavon eds., Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2005, 491 p.)

Subjects: Decolonization, Indigenous peoples

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High North Research Documents

Freely available articles, theses, reports, books, maps, videos, and other documents dealing with the North and the Far North.

Subjects: Caribou, Climate change, Ice, Indigenous peoples, Inuit, Oceanography, Permafrost, Sami, Tundra

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Historical dictionary of the Inuit

A dictionary with over 450 articles on the social, political, economic, educational, and environmental history of the Inuit in the Circumpolar North.

Subjects: History, Indigenous peoples, Inuit

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Historical maps: Arctic (BAnQ)

Corpus of fifteen old maps dating from the 17th to the 20th century. These documents bear witness to the Arctic expeditions and explorations carried out by several generations of European explorers in search of the Northwest Passage. These documents reflect the advancement of knowledge of the Arctic coastline of North America. The information on these maps is based among other things on the discoveries of Martin Frobisher, William Baffin, etc.

Subjects: Arctic archipelago, Baffin bay, Canadian arctic, Cartography, Circumpolar Arctic, Davis Strait, Greenland, Hudson Strait, Maps, Northwest Passage

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Historical maps: Circumpolar North (BAnQ)

Corpus of ancient maps of various kinds that represent the greater circumpolar region.

Subjects: Circumpolar North, Northern Quebec, Nouveau-Québec, Nunavik

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Historical maps: Hudson’s Bay (BAnQ)

Corpus of historical maps dating from the 17th and 18th century and allowing to visualize the territorial evolution of Hudson Bay. Their representation of Hudson’s Bay is inspired, among other things, by the explorations of Henry Hudson and Thomas James. These maps relate the French and English expeditions to this much coveted territory because of its strategic positioning for the fur trade in Europe.

Subjects: Cartography, Hudson Bay, Hudson’s Bay Company, Maps, New France

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Historical maps: Strait of Belle Isle (BAnQ)

Corpus of ancient maps of the Strait of Belle Isle, including parts of the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Subjects: Groswater Bay, Labrador, Strait of Belle Isle

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Hubert Wenger Eskimo Database

Bibliography of literature reporting first contact and first observations of the Inuit, hosted by the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

Subjects: Bibliography, First contact, Inuit, Literature

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Hunter with Harpoon (BAnQ)

Published fifty years ago under the title Harpoon of the Hunter, Markoosie Patsauq’s novel helped establish the genre of Indigenous fiction in Canada. This new English translation unfolds the story of Kamik, a young hero who comes to manhood while on a perilous hunt for a wounded polar bear. In this astonishing tale of a people struggling for survival in a brutal environment, Patsauq describes a life in the Canadian Arctic as one that is reliant on cooperation and vigilance.

Subjects: Canadian arctic, Indigenous authors, Indigenous literature, Inuit

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I am Inuit: Portraits of places and people of the Arctic

Documentary work by iñupiaq Brian Adams, combining photojournalism with the intimate stories of twenty-one Inuit communities in Alaska. (Brian Adams (photographe) & Julie Decker, Salenstein (Switzerland), Benteli, 2018, 205 p.)

Subjects: Alaska, Customs, Indigenous authors, Indigenous communities, Inuit, Photographs

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Ililîmôwasinahikan : Ililîmowin – Wemištikôšmowin = A dictionary of Moose Cree : Cree – English

Dictionary of the Moose Cree dialect spoken by the Cree in Moose Factory, Ontario, south of Hudson Bay.

Subjects: Cree, Cree dialects, Cree dictionary, Hudson Bay, Indigenous peoples, Moose Cree

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Illustrations taken from Quebec periodicals: expeditions in the arctic archipelago (BAnQ)

Dating from the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, these illustrations taken from Quebec periodicals shed light on the wave of expeditions devoted to reaching the northern summit with a view to claiming sovereignty over the North Pole. There are old engravings of the ship Fram on which the Norwegian Fridtjof Nansen made the first transpolar drift, an image illustrating the departure of Captain J. E. Bernier during his Canadian boreal expedition, etc.

Subjects: Arctic archipelago, Arctic Ocean, Canadian arctic, Exploration

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Illustrations taken from Quebec periodicals: Inuit mores and customs (BAnQ)

19th century documentary iconography corpus. These images, taken from Quebec magazines: L’Opinion publique (1870-1883), Monde Illustré (1884-1902,1907) and L’Album Univers (1902-1907), paint a picture of the cultural and social life of the Inuit in a time when photographs were uncommon.

Subjects: Cultural identity, Hunting and fishing, Inuit, Villages

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Images du Nord et de l’Arctique

Photographs and postcards of the Université Laval library, representing First Nations and Inuit, settlers, missionaries, explorers and landscapes from Canada’s Arctic and Northern Quebec. Includes photographs of the Judicial Expedition in 1923 at Pond Inlet (Baffin Island), with Captain Bernier.

Subjects: Canadian arctic, Indigenous peoples, Joseph-Elzéar Bernier, Postcards, Missionaries, Northern Quebec, Photographs

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Impact: colonialism in Canada

A collection of both non-fiction and fiction writings by Indigenous authors reflecting on the impacts of settler colonialism in Canada. (Warren Cariou, Katherena Vermette, Niigaan James Sinclair eds, Winnipeg, Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre Inc., 2017, 198 p. )

Subjects: Colonialism, Indigenous authors

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