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Modèles numériques d’altitude des villages nordiques à l’échelle 1/2 000 (Géoindex)

Modèles numériques d’altitude des villages nordiques à l’échelle 1/2 000 (Géoindex)

Includes digital elevation models covering Inuit villages located north of the 55th parallel. The documents in this series are digital elevation matrices accurate to within one metre.

Subjects: Digital elevation model, Geospatial data, Indigenous peoples, Inuit, Villages

Nordicité canadienne

Nordicité canadienne

A seminal work on northern studies and nordicity that looks at the notion of “the North” (including perceptions and boundaries) in a Canadian context. (Louis-Edmond Hamelin, Montréal, Hurtubise HMH, 1975, 458 p.)

 

Subjects: Geography, Limits of the Canadian North, Northern studies, Northern Canada, Nordicity

  • Type of access
    • Printed document
  • Domain
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
    • Natural Sciences
Orthophotographie noir et blanc des villages nordiques 1/10 000 (2004) (Géoindex)

Orthophotographie noir et blanc des villages nordiques 1/10 000 (2004) (Géoindex)

Set of 161 digital orthophotos representing northern villages (1:10,000).

Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Inuit, Orthophotographs, Quebec, Villages

Parc national du Québec (Géoindex)

Parc national du Québec (Géoindex)

Layer of geospatial data representing Quebec’s provincial parks in the form of polygons, scale 1:100,000.

Subjects: Geospatial data, National parks, Quebec

  • Type of access
    • Reserved Access
  • Domain
    • Natural Sciences
Qu’as-tu fait de mon pays? Tanite nene etutamin nitassi?

Qu’as-tu fait de mon pays? Tanite nene etutamin nitassi?

This novel tells the story of the dispossession of indigenous peoples and the abuses of the colonial system in the form of a philosophical tale. In this work, An Antane Kapesh, the first Innu author, interprets the forest and those who endured colonial history in their flesh and their dignity and explains the world as it was before colonization.

Subjects: Colonization, Indigenous authors, Indigenous literature, Innu, Innu territory

  • Type of access
    • Printed document
    • Free - BAnQ Subscribers
    • Reserved Access
  • Domain
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
Rediscovery of Traditional Ecological Knowledge as Adaptive Management

Rediscovery of Traditional Ecological Knowledge as Adaptive Management

Article that considers indigenous traditional knowledge and practices to ensure ecosystem management. (F. Berkes et al., Ecological Applications, vol. 10, no 5, 2000.)

Subjects: Environment, Indigenous peoples

  • Type of access
    • Reserved Access
  • Domain
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
Russian Arctic Seas: Navigational conditions and accidents

Russian Arctic Seas: Navigational conditions and accidents

Bilingual (Russian–English) accounts of activities in the Russian Arctic seas that have resulted in accidents. Specifically, the physical environment and navigation issues in the Kara, Laptev, East Siberian, and Chukchi Seas. Half of the book is devoted to detailed descriptions of nearly 100 accidents caused by heavy ice conditions since 1900. The accidents are categorized according to type and cause, e.g., shipwrecks, forced drift (ice jets in one particular case), overwintering, and various types of vessel damage.

Subjects: Earth sciences, Environmental sciences, Oceanography, Russia

  • Type of access
    • Reserved Access
  • Domain
    • Engineering and Technology
Scopus

Scopus

Database containing citations for over 69 million articles, chapters, and conference proceedings, primarily in natural sciences, but also in the humanities and social sciences. Features significant coverage of northern and Arctic studies. Contains over 12,000 author profiles and significant coverage of publications in languages other than English.

Subjects:

  • Type of access
    • Reserved Access
  • Domain
    • Engineering and Technology
    • Health Sciences
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
    • Natural Sciences
The Eastern Arctic Seas Encyclopedia

The Eastern Arctic Seas Encyclopedia

I S Zonn, A G Kostianoĭ, Aleksandr V Semenov

Contains over 1,500 terms related to the physical and human geography, biology, transport communications, history, and protection of the Laptev, East Siberian, and Chukchi Seas.

Subjects: Biology, Earth sciences, Eastern Arctic, History, Indigenous peoples, Oceanography

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  • Type of access
    • Reserved Access
  • Domain
    • Engineering and Technology
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
    • Natural Sciences
The new Arctic

The new Arctic

Birgitta Evengård, Joan Nymand Larsen, Øyvind Paasche

Provides a multidisciplinary perspective of Arctic science today, with texts related to Indigenous studies, tourism, economics, natural resources, and governance. (Birgitta Evengård et al. [dir.], Cham (Suisse) : Springer, 2015, 352 p.)

Subjects: Arctic sciences, Circumpolar Arctic, Climate change, Indigenous peoples, Northern studies

  • Type of access
    • Reserved Access
  • Domain
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
    • Natural Sciences
The Western Arctic Seas Encyclopedia

The Western Arctic Seas Encyclopedia

An encyclopedia designed to accumulate and systematize knowledge about three unique natural water areas—the Barents, White, and Kara Seas—and their rich features, the events that have taken place on their waters and shores, and the remarkable people whose lives were, and are, closely intertwined with these seas.

Subjects: Biology, Earth sciences, History, Western Arctic, Oceanography

  • Type of access
    • Reserved Access
  • Domain
    • Engineering and Technology
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
    • Natural Sciences
Web of Science

Web of Science

Database containing over 55 million article and conference proceedings citations, primarily in the sciences, but also in the humanities and social sciences. Features significant coverage of northern and Arctic studies. The database can be searched by citation to find articles cited by other publications.

Subjects:

  • Type of access
    • Free - BAnQ Subscribers
  • Domain
    • Engineering and Technology
    • Health Sciences
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
    • Natural Sciences