دانلود کتاب Canada's Changing North

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Cover\nTitle\nCopyright\nContents\nIntroduction\nI.\rDefining the north\n 1. A Circumpolar Index\n 2. The Arctic Basin and the Arctic: Some Definitions\nII. Historical Perspectives\n 3. The Identification of Vinland\n 4 . Early Geographical Concepts of the Northwest Passage\n 5. Voyageurs’ Highway: The Geography and Logistics of the Canadian Fur Trade\n 6. Fur Trading Posts in the Mackenzie Region Up to 1850\n 7. The Sponsors of Canadian Arctic Exploration: 1844-1859\n 8. Albert Peter Low\n 9. Discovery of Two Islands in Eastern Foxe Basin\n 10. Success of the Plaisted Expedition\n 11. The North in Canadian History\nIII. Physical Nature\n 12. How the Mackenzie River Was Made\n 13. Arctic Landforms\n 14. Fluvial Processes in the High Arctic\n 15. Climate and Zonal Divisions of the Boreal Forest Formation in Eastern Canada\n 16. Organic Terrain and Geomorphology\n 17. Permafrost Map of Canada\n 18. Wind Chill in Northern Canada\n 19. The Ecology of Snow\n 20. Migrating Caribou: Barren-ground Herds Face a Serious Threat to Survival\nIV. Native Peoples\n 21. The Fragments of Eskimo Prehistory\n 22. Changing Patterns of Indian Trapping in the Canadian Subarctic\n 23. Changing Settlement Patterns Amongst the Mackenzie Eskimos of the Canadian North Western Arctic\nV. Economic Resources\n 24. About Our Untold Resources\n 25. The Montferre Mining Region, Labrador-Ungava\n 26. Oil’s Last Frontier\n 27. Arctic Petroleum Potential\n 28. The Forests of Northern Canada\n 29. Reindeer Resource in the Mackenzie Delta, 1968\n 30. Remarks on Eskimo Sealing and the Harp Seal Controversy\nVI. Transportation and Communications\n 31. Transportation as a Factor in Northern Development\n 32. Transportation and the Settlement Frontier in the Mackenzie Valley Area\n 33. Communications in the North\nVII. Regionalism and Northern Settlements\n 34. An Attempt to Regionalize \rthe Canadian North\n 35. “Regions” and Identity in the North: Some Notes\n 36. Settlement Types and Community Organization in Northern Canada\n 37. The Northern Urban Scene\nVIII. Problems of the North\n 38. Bewildered Hunters in the 20th Century\n 39. The Polar Continental Shelf Project\n 40. Boundary Problems Relating to the Sovereignty of the Canadian Arctic\n 41. Canada\'s Northern Policy: Retrospect and Prospect\n 42. The Ecology of the North: knowledge is the key to sane development\nMaps\n 1. The Nordic World\n 2. Some Significant Boundaries\n 3. Main Waterways of the Canadian Fur Trade\n 4. Mackenzie Valley to 1850: Fur Trading Posts\n 5A. The Labrador Peninsula: Journeys of A. P. Low\n 5B. Distribution of Permafrost and Ground Temperature Observation Sites in Canada\n 6A. Tree Lines of Boreal Softwoods\n 6B. Proposed Forest Regions\n 7A. Thermal Efficiency\n 7B. Moisture Index\n 8A. Mean Wind Chill Factor, January\n 8B. Mean Wind Chill Factor, April\n 9A. Mean Wind Chill Factor, July\n 9B. Mean Wind Chill Factor, October\n 10A. Mean Annual Number of Degree Days\n 10B. Mean Wind Chill Factor, Annual\n 11. Map of the Region around Snowdrift, NWT\n 12. Distribution by Settlement of the Mackenzie Eskimos\n 13. Mining Activity in the Montferre Region\n 14. Transportation Systems in Northern Canada\n 15A. Northern Regions of Canada\n 15B. Locations of Settlements Cited\n 16. Canada\nNote on the Editor\nThe Contributors