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Canada and the idea of North

An exploration of northern Canadian imagery, with examples from literature, art, music, and popular culture. (Sherrill E. Grace, Montréal, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001, 341 p.)

Subjects: Arts, Imaginary North, Indigenous authors, Literature, Popular culture, Music, Northern Canada

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Canada’s changing North

Wonders, William C.

Collection of texts providing an overview of the geography, history, economy, politics, and ethnology of the Canadian North.

Subjects: Economy, Ethnology, Geography, History, Indigenous authors, Northern Canada, Politics

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Canadian Ice Service publications

Publications produced by the Canadian Ice Service of the Government of Canada.

Subjects: Atlas, Canadian arctic, Ice, Maps, Northern Canada

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Canadian Nordicity: it is your north, too

Hamelin, Louis-Edmond

A seminal work on northern studies and nordicity that looks at the notion of “the North” (including perceptions and boundaries) in a Canadian context. English translation of Nordicité canadienne.

Hamelin, L.-E. (1978). Canadian nordicity : it’s your North, too. Harvest House.

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

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Canadiana

A virtual library dedicated to Canadian history, providing access to prints from the era of early European settlers to the mid-20th century. Various collections related to autochthony and northernness are included, including those of the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives, Jesuit Relations and Native Studies (formerly called Early Canadiana Online)

Subjects: Colonialism, Europe, Hudson’s Bay Company, Indigenous peoples, Jesuits

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Carcajou à l’aurore du monde : fragments écrits d’une encyclopédie orale innue (BAnQ)

Savard, Rémi

This book immerses us in the boreal universe of Carcajou, this strange and fabulous being who populates the legends of northern Quebec and Labrador. In the 1970s, Savard recorded narrative sequences of this character after interviewing storytellers from the Ungava Valley and Sheshatshiu in Labrador.

Savard, R. (2016). Carcajou à l’aurore du monde : fragments écrits d’une encyclopédie orale innue. Recherches amérindiennes au Québec.

Subjects: Atanukans, Innu, Innu-aitun, Mythology, Oral narratives

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Cartes anciennes de l’Arctique (Université Laval)

Collection of the University Laval’s Library consisting of some twenty maps dating from the 16th to the 20th century. These documents are the work of famous cartographers such as Gerardus Mercator, Jan Jansson, Guillaume de L’Isle and Willem Blaeu, but also of explorers like Captain Joseph-Elzéar Bernier.

Subjects: Cartography, Circumpolar Arctic, Maps

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Cartes topographiques des villages autochtones du nord (2009-2011) à l’échelle de 1/2 000 (BDVN-2K) (Géoindex)

A collection of 22 layers of geospatial data comprising a valuable geographic reference tool for organizations working in these regions.

Once connected to the platform, type “BDVN-2K” in the leftmost searchbox named “Search (metadata)”.

Subjects: Topographic maps, Northern Quebec, Topography, Villages

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Census Profile , 2016 Census (Statistics Canada) (Statistics Canada)

All census variables for northern Canada (territories) and northern Quebec (economic regions)

Subjects: Census, Indigenous peoples, Northern Canada, Northern Quebec

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Chasseur au harpon : un long récit de Markoosie

En pleine tempête de neige, un ours blanc attaque un campement inuit et éviscère de nombreux chiens. Convaincus que l’animal est malade et qu’il s’en prendra de nouveau aux leurs, des chasseurs se lancent à sa poursuite au péril de leur vie.

Subjects: Hunting and fishing, Indigenous authors, Indigenous communities, Inuit

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Circling the midnight sun: Culture and change in the invisible Arctic

Over the course of three years, James Raffan circumnavigated the globe at 66.6 degrees latitude: the Arctic Circle. He set out to put a human face on climate change. In Circling the Midnight Sun, Raffan presents a warm-hearted, engaging portrait of the circumpolar world, but also a deeply affecting story of societies and landscapes in the throes of enormous change. (James Raffan, Toronto, HarperCollins Canada, 2014, 400 p.)

Subjects: Circumpolar Arctic, Climate change

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Circumpolar Health Atlas

Uses maps, tables, charts, and images to describe and explain the major health problems of the diverse peoples who inhabit the circumpolar region of the northern hemisphere.

Subjects: Atlas, Circumpolar North, Health, Indigenous peoples, Maps, Medical care, Social determinants of health

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Cold Regions Bibliography Project

References to studies on human activity and scientific operations in cold environments.

Subjects: Earth sciences, Engineering, Environmental sciences, Physical sciences

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Comment je perçois la vie, Grand-Mère : Eshi uapataman Nukum

This collection by Rita Mestokosho, Innu woman from the community of Ekuanitshit (Mingan), offers eight Innu-French bilingual texts, then twelve written directly in French.

Subjects: Indigenous authors, Indigenous literature, Poetry

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Compendex

The main engineering database, with over 20 million references to journal articles and conference proceedings. Features a thesaurus with a controlled vocabulary in fields relevant to northern and Arctic studies, including mining engineering, civil engineering, material science, bioengineering, and optics.

Subjects: Engineering, Geomatics, Mining, Optics

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Contre le colonialisme dopé aux stéroïdes : le combat des Inuit du Québec pour leurs terres ancestrales

In this book, Zebedee Nungak provides his account of The Battle of James Bay from 1971-1975, where Inuit and Cree communities fought for their lands and waters against the Quebec government’s James Bay hydro project. (Zebedee Nungak, Montréal, Boréal, 2019, 181 p.)

Subjects: Colonialism, Indigenous authors, Inuit, James Bay, Quebec

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Corpus of Inuit Prints : Woodblock print (BAnQ)

Corpus of prints produced by Manuel Lau and published under the aegis of Puvirnituq Printshop. Since the inception of the Experimental Print Program in Cape Dorset, Puvirnituq has been one of four Inuit communities that has produced collections of prints on a regular basis. These works allow us to appreciate this practice of Inuit art which traditionally puts the world around it first. It includes, among other things, a tribute to the internationally renowned artist Davidialuk Alaasuaq Amittukinuit.

Subjects: Indigenous art, Inuit

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Corpus of Inuit prints: linocut (BAnQ)

Selection of prints made by Aisa Amittuq, son of the famous Inuit artist Davidialuk Alasua Amittu. Although Aisa is best known for his stone carvings, mostly carved from the dark stone found near Akulivik and Puvirnituq, this corpus bears witness to his experience in recording narrative accounts from Inuit oral tradition on prints in two dimensions.

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Corpus of Inuit prints: silkscreen (BAnQ)

This selection of prints illustrates screen printing practices within the Inuit community of Povungnituk during the 1980s, spurred on by the Cape Dorset art movement. This so-called contemporary artistic phase was characterized by a culture in full transition and coincided with the gradual “opening” of the North after the Second World War. This corpus highlights birds, marine mammals and land animals from the Arctic.

Subjects: Arts, Indigenous art, Inuit

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Corpus of Inuit Prints: Stone Engraving (BAnQ)

This selection of prints illustrates stonecutting practices within the Inuit art community of Povungnituk in the early 1980s. Featuring prominent Inuit printmakers of the time, it highlights the complex self-representation of the experience. Nordic, the founding myths of Inuit culture as well as traditional hunting and fishing techniques.

Subjects: Indigenous art, Inuit

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