First Peoples of the North

North Circumpolar Map (Gouvernement du Canada)

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Polar projection map produced in 2016 indicating settlements, boundaries, transportation networks, glaciers, and national parks.

Northern Quebec (Environment Canada) (Environnement Canada)

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Map depicting Indigenous lands, nations, and marine regions, as well as administrative regions, municipalities, and hydroelectric power plants.

Northwest Territories (Statistics Canada) (Statistics Canada)

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Census Program key indicators for the Northwest Territories.

Nunavik Bibliography (ASTIS)

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Contains 8,000 records of publications dealing with various facets of northern Quebec, including geoscience, life sciences, humanities, and social science.

Nunavik: Inuit place name map series

BAnQ (Print Book) | Laval (Print Book) | McGill (Print Book)

Collection of large maps featuring traditional place names of places, lakes, and rivers Text in Inuktitut (syllabic fonts), English, and French.

Nunavut (Statistics Canada)

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Census Program key indicators for Nunavut.

Nunavut Atlas

Concordia (Print book) | Laval (Print Book) | McGill (Print Book) | UQAM (Print Book)

Atlas depicting land and resource use as claimed by the Inuit as part of the process of the creation of Nunavut. Includes maps on the communities, wildlife, and geographic boundaries of the Inuit world.

Nunavut Database (ASTIS)

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Descriptions of nearly 35,000 grey literature publications (reports by government agencies, Inuit organizations, universities, and industry), journal articles, conference proceedings, theses, and books on Nunavut, the Canadian Arctic, and the circumpolar Arctic.

Nunivaat – Nunavik Statistics Program (Université Laval)

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Socio-economic statistics on Nunavik.

Online Cree Dictionary

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English–Cree dictionary in syllabics and Roman orthography. Produced by Miyo Wahkohtowin Education and the University of Alberta.

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

Concordia (Reserved Access) | INRS (Reserved Access) | Laval (Reserved Access) | McGill (Reserved Access) | UQAM (Reserved Access) | UQTR (Reserved Access)

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

Our Responsibility to The Seventh Generation. Indigenous Peoples and Sustainable Development

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Indigenous perspectives on sustainable development, addressing the relationship to the environment, environmental degradation, respect for life, and the well-being of current and future generations. (Linda Clarkson, Vern Morrissette et Gabriel Régallet, International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 1992, 92 p.)

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.

PAIS Index

Concordia (Reserved Access) | Laval (Reserved Access) | McGill (Reserved Access)

Base de données qui compte des références d’articles de revues, d’articles de conférences, de livres et de rapports sur les politiques publiques et sociales, les affaires publiques et les relations internationales. Produit pertinent pour différents domaines liés aux études nordiques, dont le développement économique, les questions judiciaires, d’éducation, de ressources naturelles, de droits humaines, etc. La base possède un riche vocabulaire contrôlé accessible par un thésaurus.

Pan Inuit Trails

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Atlas showing Inuit occupancy of the Northwest Passage region, specifically traditional Inuit trails across the Arctic.

Photographic serie: exhibition of Inuit sculptures and engravings (BAnQ)

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Corpus of photographs taken during an exhibition held in 1964 by Jacques Rousseau, geographer and northerner, and devoted to Inuit art. These iconographic documents showcase remarkable stone carvings and carvings on walrus ivory from New Quebec (or Nunavik, as it is now called).

Photographic serie: Montagnais and Naskapi communities of the Côte-Nord and Labrador (BAnQ)

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This photographic series was taken by Paul Provencher and bears witness to his career as a forest engineer for the Quebec North Shore company between 1929 and 1963. During this period, he explored, surveyed and inventoried the boreal forest of the Côte-Nord and du Labrador. He meets and accompanies the Innu along the Manicouagan and Toulnustouc rivers and visits the communities of Betsiamites (Pessamit), Sept-Îles (Uashat Mak Mani-Utenam), La Romaine (Unamen Shipi), Moisie Fort Mackenzie (Kawawachikamach, Matimekosh). His photographs bear witness to the Innu-aitun culture and promote the recognition of ancestral aboriginal practices that have been tested and proven for centuries.

Photographic serie: supplying Hudson's Bay Company posts and patrolling arctic waters (BAnQ)

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Photographs taken during the summer of 1944 by the geographer Pierre Dagenais during a long-haul journey towards Labrador with stops at Cartwright, Hebron and Baffin (Cape Dorset) on board the Nascopie, a supply ship for remote posts of the Far North of the Hudson's Bay Company. These annual excursions under the aegis of the federal government were designed to establish Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic and study related emerging issues. These photographs highlight scenes related to the provision of food and everyday consumer goods to island Inuit communities.

Plan Nord maps (BAnQ)

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Collection of geographic and thematic maps (actives mines and mining projects, electricity generation, wildlife areas, vegetation zones, aboriginal communities, etc.) from the Plan Nord program, dedicated to the sustainable development and the enhancement of the resources of northern Quebec.