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Géocultures : Méthodologies russes sur l'Arctique
Collective essay on cultural methodologies on the Arctic in the context of Siberia. (Daniel Chartier, Dmitry Zamyatin, Ekaterina Romanova et Olga Lavrenova, Montréal, Imaginaire Nord, coll. «Isberg», 2020, 100 p. Translated from Russian by Marianna Samsonova.)
Collection(s): *** Studying the North ***, Imaginary Perspectives
Free - Open Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Imaginary North, Russia, Siberia, Research methodologies
Géogratis – Index des produits géospatiaux
Access to the most common federal geospatial data for Canada, including the Arctic.
Collection(s): *** Maps, Atlases and Geospatial Data ***, Geospatial Data, Northern Canada
Free - Open Access, Humanities and Social Sciences, Natural Sciences
Subjects: Canada, Geospatial data
GéoInfo – Territoire nordique (Gouvernement du Québec)
Compilation of data on Northern Quebec, some of which is freely accessible.
Collection(s): *** Maps, Atlases and Geospatial Data ***, Geospatial Data, Northern Quebec, *** First Peoples of the North ***, Maps, Atlases, and Geospatial Data, Geospatial Data, Northern Quebec
Free - Open Access, Free - Reference only, Humanities and Social Sciences, Natural Sciences
Subjects: Cartography, Geospatial data, Northern Quebec
GeoRef
Laval (Reserved Access) | McGill (Reserved Access) | UQAM (Reserved access)
Database produced by the American Geosciences Institute, with over 3.6 million references to journal articles and conference proceedings on geoscience, including geology, stratigraphy, petrology, and hydrology. GeoRef boasts a controlled vocabulary accessible via a thesaurus that allows users to search by geographic region of the North and the Arctic.
Collection(s): *** Databases ***, Natural Sciences
Reserved Access, Natural Sciences
Subjects: Geology, Hydrology, Petrology, Earth sciences, Environmental sciences
GEOSCAN
Database of the scientific publications of Natural Resources Canada containing 85,000 references related to the fields of geoscience (including publications by the Geological Survey of Canada), mining, materials, and energy. Some publications are freely available.
Collection(s): *** Databases ***, Natural Sciences, Engineering and Technology
Free - Open Access, Free - Reference only, Engineering and Technology, Natural Sciences
Subjects: Energy, Mining, Geology, Engineering, Earth sciences
Google Scholar
A bibliographic search engine that indexes a considerable proportion of scientific publications made available in digital format by academic publishers, scholarly societies, and universities, including journal articles, reports, theses, e-books, and others. Full text (not just metadata) can be searched. Provides links to free-access content.
Collection(s): *** Databases ***, Multidisciplinary, Natural Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Health Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences
Free - Open Access, Free - Reference only, Engineering and Technology, Health Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, Natural Sciences
Subjects: N/A
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
Hidden in plain sight: contributions of Aboriginal peoples to Canadian identity and culture
Concordia (eBook) | Laval (eBook) | McGill (eBook)
This book offers an Indigenous perspective to Canadian and Aboriginal history, demonstrating the significant contributions Indigenous peoples have made and are making to the development of Canadian identity, politics, education, and culture, etc. (David Newhouse, Cora Voyageur, Daniel Beavon eds., Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2005, 491 p.)
Collection(s): *** Studying the North ***, Perspectives on Decolonization
Reserved Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Decolonization, Indigenous peoples
High North Research Documents
Freely available articles, theses, reports, books, maps, videos, and other documents dealing with the North and the Far North.
Collection(s): *** Databases ***, Multidisciplinary, Natural Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Health Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, *** First Peoples of the North ***, Databases
Free - Open Access, Engineering and Technology, Health Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, Natural Sciences
Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Caribou, Climate change, Ice, Inuit, Oceanography, Permafrost, Sami, Tundra
Historical atlas of the Arctic
Concordia (Print book) | Laval (Print book) | McGill (Print book) | UQAM (Print book)
An atlas presenting five centuries of polar exploration and mapping, from the first-ever print map of the region (Mercator, 1595) to contemporary mapping of the ocean depths using multibeam bathymetry.
Collection(s): *** Maps, Atlases and Geospatial Data ***, Maps and Atlases, Old Maps
Print Document, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Atlas, Cartography, Discovery, Exploration, History
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
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
Hubert Wenger Eskimo Database
Bibliography of literature reporting first contact and first observations of the Inuit, hosted by the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
Collection(s): *** Archives and Primary Sources ***, *** First Peoples of the North ***, Archives and Primary Sources, Databases
Free - Open Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Bibliography, Inuit, Literature, First contact
Hunter with Harpoon (BAnQ)
BAnQ (Print Book) | Concordia (eBook) | Concordia (Print Book) | Laval (eBook) | McGill (eBook) | UQAM (eBook) | UQTR (eBook)
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
Hydrocarbon Impacts (ASTIS)
Contains references for 9,000 publications on the environmental impacts, socio-economic effects, and regulation of hydrocarbon exploration, development, and transportation in northern Canada.
Collection(s): *** Databases ***, Natural Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Humanities and Social Sciences
Free - Open Access, Free - Reference only, Engineering and Technology, Humanities and Social Sciences, Natural Sciences
Subjects: Gas, Hydrocarbons, Oil, Regulation, Environmental sciences
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
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