General Public
New! Quality books, maps and atlases, online movies, and websites that attract and address topics of interest for the general public regarding the North and the Arctic, such as Aboriginal peoples, Arctic exploration, the environment and climate change.
Most of the documents are freely accesible on the web or through the digital lending of Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (subscription free of charge for any resident of Quebec). The rest of the listed documents are available in print format.
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Resources
Chasseur au harpon : un long récit de Markoosie
Concordia (Print Book) | Laval (eBook) | McGill (Print Book) | UQAM (Print Book) | UQTR (eBook)
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.
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, Indigenous novels and poetry, *** General Public ***, Indigenous novels and poetry
Free - Open Access, Print Document, Reserved Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Inuit, Indigenous authors, Hunting and fishing, Indigenous communities
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.)
Collection(s): *** General Public ***, Books (essays), General Subjects, Climate and Environment
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Subjects: Circumpolar Arctic, Climate change
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.
Collection(s): *** General Public ***, Indigenous novels and poetry, *** First Peoples of the North ***, Indigenous novels and poetry
Free - BAnQ Subscribers, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Poetry, Indigenous literature, Indigenous authors
Croc fendu
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Novel mixing myth and reality, poetry and prose, telling the childhood in the 1970s of a pregnant girl in Nunavut. The beauty of the place rubs shoulders with the ravages caused by alcohol and violence. Spirits and animals are also present. The author, Tanya Tagaq Gillis, is an internationally renowned Inuit artist who incorporates, among other things, throat singing into her musical pieces.
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, Indigenous novels and poetry, *** General Public ***, Indigenous novels and poetry
Free - BAnQ Subscribers, Print Document, Reserved Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Indigenous literature, Indigenous authors, Inuit, Culture
Dead reckoning : the untold story of the Northwest passage
Documentary work on the discovery and exploration of the Arctic, from the 16th century to the present day, and emphasizing the little-known characters, including several natives, who took part in the expeditions. (Ken McGoogan, Toronto, HarperCollins Canada, 2017, 438 p.)
Collection(s): *** General Public ***, Books (essays), Exploration
Print Document, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: History, Exploration, Circumpolar North, Indigenous peoples, John Franklin
Do not enter my soul in your shoes : poems
This first collection of poems by Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, Innu native of Pessamit on the North Shore of Quebec, is a dive into the female body, accompanied by a poetic reflection on exile and the feeling of love. It has received critical acclaim and won the 2013 Société des Ecrivains Francophones d'Amérique Award of Excellence
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, Indigenous novels and poetry, *** General Public ***, Indigenous novels and poetry
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Subjects: Innu, Indigenous literature, Indigenous authors, PoetryEthnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory (BAnQ)
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Originally published in 1894 as a part of the eleventh annual report of the Smithsonian Institution, this reissue of Lucien M. Turner's classic book chronicles his observations of Indigenous culture on his journey along the Quebec-Labrador coast and during his stay in Fort-Chimo towards the end of the 19th century.
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, *** General Public ***, Books (essays), Indigenous Peoples
Free - BAnQ Subscribers, Reserved Access, Humanities and Social Sciences, Natural Sciences
Subjects: Exploration, Inuit, Innu, Innu-aitun, Culture
Eukuan nin matshi-manitu innushkueu : Je suis une maudite sauvagesse
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In this novel, Antane Kapesh wrote to preserve and share her culture, experience, and knowledge, all of which, she felt, were disappearing at an alarming rate because many Elders – like herself – were aged or dying. She wanted to publicly denounce the conditions in which she and the Innu were made to live, and to address the changes she was witnessing due to land dispossession and loss of hunting territory, police brutality, and the effects of the residential school system.
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, Indigenous Authors (Essays), Indigenous novels and poetry, *** General Public ***, Indigenous novels and poetry
Free - BAnQ Subscribers, Print Document, Reserved Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Innu-aimun, Innu-aitun, Indigenous literature, Indigenous communities, Indigenous authors
Eye on the Arctic (Radio-Canada International)
Videos and news articles by journalists from the world's circumpolar countries, reporting about Arctic climate change and reality of Arctic communities and peoples.
Collection(s): *** Studying the North ***, Current perspectives, News, *** First Peoples of the North ***, Online Films, *** General Public ***, Online Films, *** Online Films ***
Free - Open Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Documentaries, Television programs, CBC, Reports, Videos
Finding Franklin : The untold story of a 165-year search
BAnQ (Print Book) | Concordia (eBook) | Concordia (Print Book) | Laval (eBook) | McGill (eBook) | UQAM (eBook) | UQTR (eBook)
Account of the many research projects that have tried to unravel the mystery of the greatest enigma in the history of polar exploration, the Franklin's lost expedition. (Russell A. Potter, Montréal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016, 262 p.)
Collection(s): *** General Public ***, Books (essays), Exploration
Print Document, Reserved Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Exploration, John Franklin
Floating coast : An environmental history of the Bering Strait
BAnQ (eBook) | BAnQ (Print Book) | Concordia (Print Book) | McGill (eBook)
Documentary work on the history of peoples, animal species and environmental changes specific to the Bering Strait. The author notably explores the impact of the economy and the exploitation of natural resources on the delicate balance of this remote area. (Bathsheba Demuth, New York, Norton & Company, 2019, 416 p.)
Collection(s): *** General Public ***, Books (essays), Climate and Environment
Free - BAnQ Subscribers, Humanities and Social Sciences, Natural Sciences
Subjects: Bering Strait, History, Environmental changes, Natural resources, Politics
Historical maps: Arctic (BAnQ)
Corpus of fifteen old maps dating from the 17th to the 20th century. These documents bear witness to the Arctic expeditions and explorations carried out by several generations of European explorers in search of the Northwest Passage. These documents reflect the advancement of knowledge of the Arctic coastline of North America. The information on these maps is based among other things on the discoveries of Martin Frobisher, William Baffin, etc.
Collection(s): *** General Public ***, Maps and Atlases, Old Maps, *** Maps, Atlases and Geospatial Data ***, Maps and Atlases, Old Maps
Free - Open Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Maps, Cartography, Canadian arctic, Circumpolar Arctic, Greenland, Davis Strait, Hudson Strait, Baffin bay, Arctic archipelago, Northwest Passage
Historical maps: Circumpolar North (BAnQ)
Corpus of ancient maps of various kinds that represent the greater circumpolar region.
Collection(s): *** General Public ***, Maps and Atlases, Old Maps, *** Maps, Atlases and Geospatial Data ***, Maps and Atlases, Old Maps
Free - Open Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Northern Quebec, Circumpolar North, Nunavik, Nouveau-Québec
Historical maps: Hudson's Bay (BAnQ)
Corpus of historical maps dating from the 17th and 18th century and allowing to visualize the territorial evolution of Hudson Bay. Their representation of Hudson's Bay is inspired, among other things, by the explorations of Henry Hudson and Thomas James. These maps relate the French and English expeditions to this much coveted territory because of its strategic positioning for the fur trade in Europe.
Collection(s): *** General Public ***, Maps and Atlases, Old Maps, *** Maps, Atlases and Geospatial Data ***, Maps and Atlases, Old Maps
Free - Open Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Maps, Cartography, Hudson Bay, New France, Hudson’s Bay Company
Historical maps: Strait of Belle Isle (BAnQ)
Corpus of ancient maps of the Strait of Belle Isle, including parts of the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Collection(s): *** General Public ***, Maps and Atlases, Northern Quebec, *** Maps, Atlases and Geospatial Data ***, Maps and Atlases, Old Maps
Free - Open Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Groswater Bay, Strait of Belle Isle, Labrador
Hunter with Harpoon (BAnQ)
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Published fifty years ago under the title Harpoon of the Hunter, Markoosie Patsauq's novel helped establish the genre of Indigenous fiction in Canada. This new English translation unfolds the story of Kamik, a young hero who comes to manhood while on a perilous hunt for a wounded polar bear. In this astonishing tale of a people struggling for survival in a brutal environment, Patsauq describes a life in the Canadian Arctic as one that is reliant on cooperation and vigilance.
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, Indigenous novels and poetry, *** General Public ***, Indigenous novels and poetry
Free - BAnQ Subscribers, Print Document, Reserved Access, Humanities and Social Sciences, Natural Sciences
Subjects: Inuit, Indigenous authors, Indigenous literature, Canadian arctic
I am Inuit: Portraits of places and people of the Arctic
BAnQ (Print Book) | Laval (Print Book) | McGill (Print Book)
Documentary work by iñupiaq Brian Adams, combining photojournalism with the intimate stories of twenty-one Inuit communities in Alaska. (Brian Adams (photographe) & Julie Decker, Salenstein (Switzerland), Benteli, 2018, 205 p.)
Collection(s): *** General Public ***, Books (essays), Indigenous Peoples
Print Document, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Photographs, Alaska, Inuit, Indigenous communities, Customs, Indigenous authors
Indigenous writes : A guide to First Nations, Métis and Inuit issues in Canada
BAnQ (eBook) | BAnQ (Print Book) | Concordia (eBook) | Laval (eBook) | McGill (eBook) | UQAM (eBook) | UQTR (eBook)
A collection of committed essays by Metis activist, teacher and intellectual Chelsea Vowel on the relationship between Indigenous peoples and Canada, aimed at breaking down the misconceptions still entrenched in the consciousness of non-Indigenous people, and thus offering the reader a straightforward conversation about various difficult First Nations related issues. (Chelsea Vowel, Winnipeg, HighWater Press, 2016, 290 p.)
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, Indigenous Authors (Essays), *** General Public ***, Books (essays), Indigenous Peoples
Free - BAnQ Subscribers, Reserved Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Canada, Indigenous affairs, Cultural identity, Metis, Inuit, Indigenous authors
IsumaTV
Web platform for videos filmed by Indigenous directors depicting the contemporary realities of First Nations peoples.
Collection(s): *** General Public ***, Online Films, *** Online Films ***, *** First Peoples of the North ***, Online Films
Free - Open Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Documentaries, Films, Inuit, Videos
Jardin de givre collection
BAnQ (Print Book and eBook) | Concordia (eBook) | Laval (eBook)
The literary works in this collection, published by the International Laboratory for Research on the Imaginary of the North, Winter and the Arctic, aim to document, study and interpret the northern Quebecois and circumpolar imagination from a multicultural perspective, comparative and multidisciplinary. They particularly value comparisons between the cultures of Quebec, Scandinavia, Finland and the Inuit world.
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, Indigenous novels and poetry, *** General Public ***, Indigenous novels and poetry
Free - BAnQ Subscribers, Reserved Access, Humanities and Social Sciences, Natural Sciences
Subjects: Inuit