General Public

The Arctic : What everyone needs to know

Concordia (Print Book) | Laval (Print Book) | McGill (eBook)

Non-fiction book seeking to answer the main questions of importance on the circumpolar North in relation with its history and the glacial environment of this region, the indigenous peoples who live there, the climate change effects, the natural resources development and the political issues involved. (Klaus Dodds & Mark Nuttall, New York, Oxford University Press, 2019)

The Arctic grail : The quest for the North West Passage and the North Pole (1818-1909)

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

Documentary work on the many explorations of the Arctic during the 19th and early 20th centuries, in order to discover both the North Pole, but also a passage connecting the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. (Pierre Berton, Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, 1988, 672 p.)

The Arctic guide : Wildlife of the Far North

BAnQ (Print Book) | McGill (eBook) | UQAM (eBook) | UQTR (eBook)

Guide to over 800 species of plants, fish, butterflies, birds and mammals of the circumpolar Arctic, including many colour photographs. (Sharon Chester, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2016, 542 p.)

The Atlas of Canada – Toporama (Gouvernement du Canada)

Available to all

National, regional, and local topographic maps.

The big thaw : Adventures in the vanishing Arctic

Laval (Print Book)

A story by veteran Arctic journalist Ed Struzik of eleven trips to document the rapid and profound transformation of this northern territories of Canada due to climate change. (Ed Struzik, Etobicoke, Wiley & Sons Canada, 2011, 278 p.)

The future history of the Arctic

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

Geopolitical history of the Arctic that focuses on the major political, economic, scientific and social actors on this territory. (Charles Emmerson, New York, Public Affaires, 2010, 442 p. )

The magnetic North : Notes from the Arctic Circle

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

Travelogue of author and explorer Sara Wheeler on her expedition through the territories belonging to Russia, the United States, Canada, Denmark, Norway and Finland, and showing the transformations of this once immutable landscape. (Sara Wheeler, London, Jonathan Cape, 2009, 354 p.)

The new Northwest Passage : A voyage to the front line of climate change

BAnQ (Print Book) | Laval (Print Book)

Exploration story by Canadian journalist Cameron Dueck during his expedition through the Northwest Passage in 2009, for which the crossing is now possible in summer due to climate change. (Cameron Dueck, Winnipeg, Great Plains Publications, 2012, 256 p.)

The Polar Explorer (PBS)

BAnQ (DVD)

Documentary film on the exploration of the Arctic aboard the icebreaker Admunsen which, during the three weeks crossing the Northwest Passage, highlights the effects of climate change on this area. (Mark Terry, PBS, 2012, 60 min.)

The right to be cold : One woman's story of protecting her culture, the Arctic and the whole planet

BAnQ (eBook) | Concordia (Print Book) | Laval (Print Book)

Climate change disrupts and threatens the Inuit way of life, their culture and their economic autonomy. Biographical story of an environmental activist (Sheila Watt-Cloutier, nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007) who wants to make climate change a human rights issue. Also available in French under the title "Le droit au froid : le combat d'une femme pour protéger sa culture, l'Arctique et notre planète" (2019). (Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Toronto, Allen Lane, 2015, 356 p.)

Tshakapesh: Montagnais-Naskapi stories (BAnQ)

Available to all | Laval (Print Book) | UQAM (Print Book)

Tale of Tshakapesh presented in seven variations by different indigenous storytellers. It is an oral poetry colligation primarily focused on Algonquin spirituality and mythology, which introduces us to the time when humans and animals really shared everything, including the mysterious dream world.

Uashtessiu : lumière d'automne

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

In this book, two nomads, poets, healers, one Innu, the other from Quebec, share a love for the same territory: the North Shore and, beyond, the North. Rita Mestokosho is the first Innu poet to have published a collection in Quebec, while Jean Désy is a traveling poet who sails between the South and the North and the worlds of autochthony. Two sensibilities intersect in the space of this poetic exchange which will have lasted four seasons.

Uiesh : Quelque part

BAnQ (eBook) | Laval (Print Book) | UQAM (Print Book) | UQTR (Print Book)

This bilingual French-Innu aimum collection of poetry chronicles the life of a city-dweller whose soul and heart have remained in a lost land. Being a tribute to the territory of her ancestors, this book won Joséphine Bacon the Prix des libraires 2019.

Umiujaq. ᐅᒥᐅᔭᖅ. Regards inuits sur le paysage. ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᓯᓚᒥ ᑕᑯᒡᓇᓂᒡᓇ. Inuit Views on the Landscape

Available to all

Trilingual album (French, Inuktitut, English) of amateur photographs taken in the region of Imiujaq (Nunavik) and addressing the idea of landscape among the Inuit.
(Fabienne Joliet, Montréal, Imaginaire|Nord, coll. «Isberg», 2012, 150 p.)

Unfreezing the Arctic: science, colonialism, and the transformation of Inuit lands

Concordia (Print book) | Laval (eBook) | UQTR (eBook)

This book analyses the impacts of colonialism on the climate crisis in the Arctic. (Andrew Stuhl, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2016, 232 p. )