Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
The dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference documents listed here are either specific to northern, Arctic or Indigenous studies or contain significant content related to these fields. The documents provide access to review papers by specialists. Dictionaries of northern Indigenous languages are also listed here.
Some of the resources are freely available in full-text format, while others are restricted to members of the universities mentioned (restricted access), and are available under institutional licenses only. Reference works only available in print format are also listed.
To consult the various categories and subcategories that this collection contains, use the filter Collection.
Resources
Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
Available to all | UQAM (CD-ROM)
Porsild's Illustrated Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (1957, 1964) has been the authority for vascular plants of Canada’s Arctic islands for more than 40 years, during which time there has been considerable research on Arctic vascular plants. The present document summarizes the post-1957 literature, the information resulting from the Panarctic Flora project (Nordal and Razzhivin 1999, Elven et al. 2003), and the current nomenclature for Arctic flora included in Flora of North America.
Collection(s): *** Dictionaries and Encyclopedias ***, Natural Sciences
Free - Open Access, Natural Sciences
Subjects: Arctic flora, Plant morphology, Plants
Forme et sens des mots du Tunumiisut. Lexique inuit du Groenland oriental: Lexique tunumiisut-anglais-danois
BAnQ (Print Book) | Laval (Print Book)
Trilingual dictionary of the Tunumiisut dialect of Inuktitut (also known as Ammassalik).
Collection(s): *** Dictionaries and Encyclopedias ***, Humanities and Social Sciences, Languages, *** First Peoples of the North ***, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, Languages
Print Document, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Inuktitut dialects, Inuktitut Dictionary, Greenland, Inuit, Inuktitut language, Tunumiisut lexicon, Tunumiisut
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.
Collection(s): *** Dictionaries and Encyclopedias ***, Humanities and Social Sciences, *** First Peoples of the North ***, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, Others
Reserved Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Climate change, Energy, Borders, geopolitics
Historical dictionary of the Inuit
Concordia (Print book) | Laval (Print Book) | McGill (Print Book) | UQTR (eBook)
A dictionary with over 450 articles on the social, political, economic, educational, and environmental history of the Inuit in the Circumpolar North.
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, Others, *** Dictionaries and Encyclopedias ***
Print Document, Reserved Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Indigenous peoples, History, Inuit
Ililîmôwasinahikan : Ililîmowin - Wemištikôšmowin = A dictionary of Moose Cree : Cree - English
BAnQ (Digital Document) | Laval (Print Book)
Dictionary of the Moose Cree dialect spoken by the Cree in Moose Factory, Ontario, south of Hudson Bay.
Collection(s): *** Dictionaries and Encyclopedias ***, Humanities and Social Sciences, Languages, *** First Peoples of the North ***, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, Languages
Print Document, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Hudson Bay, Cree, Cree dialects, Cree dictionary, Moose Cree
Innu placenames
A directory of Innu place names put together by the Innu Nation and Sheshatshiu Innu First Nation.
Collection(s): *** Dictionaries and Encyclopedias ***, Humanities and Social Sciences, Languages, *** First Peoples of the North ***, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, Languages
Free - Open Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Innu, Innu place names, Innu territory
Innu-Aimun Glossary
Innu–English glossary for the following fields: Medical, Teaching, Environmental Impact Assessment, Family Law and Criminal Law.
Collection(s): *** Dictionaries and Encyclopedias ***, Humanities and Social Sciences, Languages, *** First Peoples of the North ***, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, Languages
Free - Open Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Innu dictionary, Innu glossary, Innu, Innu-aimun, Innu language
Innu-English dictionary
Dictionnaires grand format de la langue innu en deux volumes qui présente les dialectes parlés au Québec et au Labrador.
Collection(s): *** Dictionaries and Encyclopedias ***, Humanities and Social Sciences
Print Document, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Innu dialects, Innu dictionary, Innu, Innu-aimun, Innu language
Inuit uqausillaringit : ulirnaisigutiit
BAnQ (Print Book) | Concordia (Print Book) | INRS (Print Book) | Laval (Print Book) | McGill (Print Book)
Trilingual dictionary of the Tunumiisut dialect of Inuktitut (also known as Ammassalik).
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, Languages, *** Dictionaries and Encyclopedias ***, Humanities and Social Sciences, Languages
Print Document, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Inuktitut dialects, Inuktitut Dictionary, Syllabic writing, Inuit, Inuktitut, Inuktitut language, Nunavik
Inuktitut dictionary : Tununiq dialect
A dictionary of the Tununiq dialect of Inuktitut (Baffin Island). Text in syllabic fonts only.
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, Languages, *** Dictionaries and Encyclopedias ***, Humanities and Social Sciences, Languages
Print Document, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Inuktitut dialects, Inuktitut Dictionary, Syllabic writing, Baffin Island, Inuit, Inuktitut, Inuktitut language
Inuktitut Tusaalanga Glossary
Glossary of 5 Inuktitut dialects spoken in Nunavut: Inuinnaqtun, Nattilinmiut, Saallirmiut, South Qikiqtaaluk, and North Qikiqtaaluk.
Collection(s): *** Dictionaries and Encyclopedias ***, Humanities and Social Sciences, Languages, *** First Peoples of the North ***, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, Languages
Free - Open Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Inuktitut dialects, Inuktitut glossary, Inuit, Inuktitut, Inuktitut language, Nunavut
Labrador Inuttut Dictionary
Inuttut–English and English–Inuttut dictionary produced by the Virtual Museum of Labrador. Inuttut is a dialect of Inuktitut spoken in Labrador.
Collection(s): *** Dictionaries and Encyclopedias ***, Humanities and Social Sciences, Languages, *** First Peoples of the North ***, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, Languages
Free - Open Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Inuktitut dialects, Inuktitut Dictionary, Inuttut dictionary, Inuttut, Labrador
Nametau Innu Glossary
Glossary of the Innu language in English and French. Produced by Musée régional de la Côte-Nord.
Collection(s): *** Dictionaries and Encyclopedias ***, Humanities and Social Sciences, Languages, *** First Peoples of the North ***, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, Languages
Free - Open Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Innu dictionary, Innu, Innu-aimun, Labrador, Innu language, Northern Quebec
Native American women: a biographical dictionary
Concordia (eBook) | Laval (eBook) | McGill (eBook) | UQAM (eBook) | UQTR (eBook)
Contains biographical entries on over 250 Indigenous women born between 1499 and 1965.
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, Others, *** Dictionaries and Encyclopedias ***, Humanities and Social Sciences
Reserved Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Indigenous women, History
Online Cree Dictionary
English–Cree dictionary in syllabics and Roman orthography. Produced by Miyo Wahkohtowin Education and the University of Alberta.
Collection(s): *** Dictionaries and Encyclopedias ***, Humanities and Social Sciences, Languages, *** First Peoples of the North ***, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, Languages
Free - Open Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Cree, Cree dictionary, Syllabic writing, Cree language
Oxford Handbook of the Prehistoric Arctic
Concordia (eBook) | Laval (eBook) | McGill (Reserved Access)
Handbook on the cultural history of the Arctic, covering topics such as climate change impacts on human societies and European colonial expansion.
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, Others, *** Dictionaries and Encyclopedias ***, Humanities and Social Sciences
Print Document, Reserved Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Climate change, Colonialism, History, Prehistory
Practical dictionary of Siberia and the North = Severnaia͡ ents͡ikloediia͡a
Laval (Print Book) | McGill (Print Book)
A compilation of over 4,000 articles by Russian specialists on scientific, historical, and geographic issues related to Siberia, Scandinavia, Canada, Alaska, the North Pole, and Russia.
Collection(s): *** Dictionaries and Encyclopedias ***, Multidisciplinary, Natural Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Health Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences
Print Document, Engineering and Technology, Health Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, Natural Sciences
Subjects: Geography, History, Circumpolar North, Russia, Siberia
Reference encyclopedia of the American Indian
BAnQ (Print Book) | Concordia (Print Book) | Laval (Print Book) | McGill (Print Book) | UQAM (Print Book)
Presentation of treaties made with more than 500 Indigenous peoples or Indigenous groups regarding land sharing, self-government, cultural protection and financial assistance.
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, Others, *** Dictionaries and Encyclopedias ***, Humanities and Social Sciences
Free - BAnQ Subscribers, Print Document, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Bibliography, Indigenous communities, Economy, Education, Health
Russian Arctic Seas: Navigational conditions and accidents
Concordia (eBook) | INRS (eBook) | Laval (eBook) | McGill (eBook) | UQAM (eBook) | UQTR (eBook)
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.
Collection(s): *** Dictionaries and Encyclopedias ***, Engineering and Technology
Reserved Access, Engineering and Technology
Subjects: Oceanography, Russia, Earth sciences, Environmental sciences
Siglit Inuvialuit uqautchiita nutaat kipuktirutait aglipkaqtat = Siglit Inuvialuit Eskimo dictionary
BAnQ (Print Book) | Concordia (Print Book) | Laval (Print Book) | McGill (Print Book) | UQAM (Print Book)
Dictionary of the Siglit dialect of Inuktitut spoken in the Western Canadian Arctic.
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, Languages, *** Dictionaries and Encyclopedias ***, Humanities and Social Sciences, Languages
Print Document, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Western Arctic, Indigenous peoples, Inuktitut dialects, Inuktitut Dictionary, Inuit, Inuktitut, Siglit