What Is North

Author : Oisín Plumb,Donna Heddle,Alexandra Sanmark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Europe, Northern
ISBN : 2503585027

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What is North? by Oisín Plumb,Donna Heddle,Alexandra Sanmark Pdf

The British Isles, Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland, and Eastern Canada, alongside many small islands, form a broken bridge across the northern extremities of the Atlantic Ocean. This 'North Atlantic World' is a heterogeneous but culturally intertwined area, ideally suited to the fostering of an interest in all things northern by its people. For the storytellers and writers of the past, each more northerly land was far enough away that it could seem fabulous and even otherworldly, while still being just close enough for myths and travellers' tales to accrue. This book charts attitudes to the North in the North Atlantic World from the time of the earliest extant sources until the present day. The varied papers within consider a number of key questions which have arisen repeatedly over the centuries: 'where is the North located?', 'what are its characteristics?', and 'who, or what lives there?'. They do so from many angles, considering numerous locations and an immense span of time. All are united by their engagement with the North Atlantic World's relationship with the North.

Author : Sherrill E Grace
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773569539

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Canada and the Idea of North by Sherrill E Grace Pdf

Canada and the Idea of North examines the ways in which Canadians have defined themselves as a northern people in their literature, art, music, drama, history, geography, politics, and popular culture. From the Franklin Mystery to the comic book superheroine Nelvana, Glenn Gould's documentaries, the paintings of Lawren Harris, and Molson beer ads, the idea of the north has been central to the Canadian imagination. Sherrill Grace argues that Canadians have always used ideas of Canada-as-North to promote a distinct national identity and national unity. In a penultimate chapter - "The North Writes Back" - Grace presents newly emerging northern voices and shows how they view the long tradition of representing the North by southern activists, artists, and scholars. With the recent creation of Nunavut, increasing concern about northern ecosystems and social challenges, and renewed attention to Canada's role as a circumpolar nation, Canada and the Idea of North shows that nordicity still plays an urgent and central role in Canada at the start of the twenty-first century.

Author : Jean Teillet
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443450140

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The North-West Is Our Mother by Jean Teillet Pdf

There is a missing chapter in the narrative of Canada’s Indigenous peoples—the story of the Métis Nation, a new Indigenous people descended from both First Nations and Europeans Their story begins in the last decade of the eighteenth century in the Canadian North-West. Within twenty years the Métis proclaimed themselves a nation and won their first battle. Within forty years they were famous throughout North America for their military skills, their nomadic life and their buffalo hunts. The Métis Nation didn’t just drift slowly into the Canadian consciousness in the early 1800s; it burst onto the scene fully formed. The Métis were flamboyant, defiant, loud and definitely not noble savages. They were nomads with a very different way of being in the world—always on the move, very much in the moment, passionate and fierce. They were romantics and visionaries with big dreams. They battled continuously—for recognition, for their lands and for their rights and freedoms. In 1870 and 1885, led by the iconic Louis Riel, they fought back when Canada took their lands. These acts of resistance became defining moments in Canadian history, with implications that reverberate to this day: Western alienation, Indigenous rights and the French/English divide. After being defeated at the Battle of Batoche in 1885, the Métis lived in hiding for twenty years. But early in the twentieth century, they determined to hide no more and began a long, successful fight back into the Canadian consciousness. The Métis people are now recognized in Canada as a distinct Indigenous nation. Written by the great-grandniece of Louis Riel, this popular and engaging history of “forgotten people” tells the story up to the present era of national reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. 2019 marks the 175th anniversary of Louis Riel’s birthday (October 22, 1844)

Author : Tristan Gooley
Publisher : The Experiment
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781615191550

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The Natural Navigator by Tristan Gooley Pdf

From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Secret World of Weather and The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs, learn to tap into nature and notice the hidden clues all around you Before GPS, before the compass, and even before cartography, humankind was navigating. Now this singular guide helps us rediscover what our ancestors long understood—that a windswept tree, the depth of a puddle, or a trill of birdsong can help us find our way, if we know what to look and listen for. Adventurer and navigation expert Tristan Gooley unlocks the directional clues hidden in the sun, moon, stars, clouds, weather patterns, lengthening shadows, changing tides, plant growth, and the habits of wildlife. Rich with navigational anecdotes collected across ages, continents, and cultures, The Natural Navigator will help keep you on course and open your eyes to the wonders, large and small, of the natural world.

Author : Stephen Bocking,Brad Martin
Publisher : Canadian History and Environment
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Arctic regions
ISBN : 1552388549

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Ice Blink by Stephen Bocking,Brad Martin Pdf

Cover -- Series Page -- Full Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1: Navigating Northern Environmental History -- Part 1: Forming Northern Colonial Environments -- 2: Moving through the Margins:The "All-Canadian" Route tothe Klondike and the StrangeExperience of the Teslin Trail -- 3: The Experimental State of Nature: Science and the Canadian Reindeer Project in the Interwar North -- 4: Shaped by the Land: An Envirotechnical History of a Canadian Bush Plane -- 5: Many Tiny Traces: Antimodernism and Northern Exploration Between the Wars -- Part 2: Transformations and the Modern North -- 6: From Subsistence to Nutrition: The Canadian State's Involvement in Food and Diet in the North,1900-1970 -- 7: Hope in the Barrenlands: Northern Development and Sustainability's Canadian History -- 8: Western Electric Turns North: Technicians and the Transformation of the Cold War Arctic -- Part 3: Environmental History and the Contemporary North -- 9: "That's the Place Where I Was Born": History, Narrative Ecology, and Politics in Canada's North -- 10: Imposing Territoriality: First Nation Land Claims and the Transformation of Human-Environment Relations in the Yukon -- 11: Ghost Towns and Zombie Mines: The Historical Dimensions of Mine Abandonment, Reclamation, and Redevelopment in the Canadian North -- 12: Toxic Surprises: Contaminants and Knowledgein the Northern Environment -- 13: Climate Anti-Politics: Scale, Locality, and Arctic Climate Change -- Conclusion -- 14: Encounters in Northern Environmental History -- Contributors -- Index

Author : Bill George,Andrew McLean,Nick Craig
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118039540

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Finding Your True North by Bill George,Andrew McLean,Nick Craig Pdf

Based on Bill George’s bestselling book True North, this personal guide offers leaders a comprehensive method for identifying their unique “True North.” The book offers methods for personal reflection and includes targeted exercises that help leaders hone in on the purpose of their leadership and developing their authentic leadership skills.

Author : Arn Keeling,John Sandlos
Publisher : Canadian History and Environme
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 1552388042

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Mining and Communities in Northern Canada by Arn Keeling,John Sandlos Pdf

This collection examines historical and contemporary social, economic, and environmental impacts of mining on Aboriginal communities in northern Canada. Combining oral history research with intensive archival study, this work juxtaposes the perspectives of government and industry with the perspectives of local communities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11547992

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House documents by Anonim Pdf

Author : James HENDERSON (Architect, Aberdeen.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024158115

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What does the present mode of conveyance to the North cost the public? And what would be the saving by railway?. by James HENDERSON (Architect, Aberdeen.) Pdf

Author : David Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Surveying
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU50499319

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Manual of Land Surveying by David Murray Pdf

Author : James Overend (M.A.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590740833

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Elementary experiments [&c.]. by James Overend (M.A.) Pdf

Author : William Thomson Baron Kelvin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Geology
ISBN : NYPL:33433066339437

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Popular Lectures and Addresses by William Thomson Baron Kelvin Pdf

Author : Nadine T. Fernandez,Katie Nelson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438486963

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Gendered Lives by Nadine T. Fernandez,Katie Nelson Pdf

Gendered Lives takes a regional approach to examine gender issues from an anthropological perspective with a focus on globalization and intersectionality. Chapters present contributors' ethnographic research, contextualizing their findings within four geographic regions: Latin America, the Caribbean, South Asia, and the Global North. Each regional section begins with an overview of the broader historical, social, and gendered contexts, which situate the regions within larger global linkages. These introductions also feature short project/people profiles that highlight the work of community leaders or non-governmental organizations active in gender-related issues. Each research-based chapter begins with a chapter overview and learning objectives and closes with discussion questions and resources for further exploration. This modular, regional approach allows instructors to select the regions and cases they want to use in their courses. While they can be used separately, the chapters are connected through the book's central themes of globalization and intersectionality. An OER version of this course is freely available thanks to the generous support of SUNY OER Services. Access the book online at https://milneopentextbooks.org/gendered-lives-global-issues/.

Author : Minnesota. State Board of Immigration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Minnesota
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020451840

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Minnesota, the Empire State of the New North-west, the Commercial, Manufacturing and Geographical Centre of the American Continent by Minnesota. State Board of Immigration Pdf

This 1878 pamphlet addresses itself to laboring and landless men, as well as to those of moderate means, who are seeking to escape the "tyrannies and thankless toil of the old world" and the overcrowded conditions and limited opportunities of regions in the eastern United States. It praises Minnesota's healthful climate and its network of railroads, its mineral resources, educational facilities, and demonstrated potential for agricultural production. There is specific information about the amount and location of public lands as well as the costs involved in homesteading. At the front of the book is a map of Minnesota townships and railroad routes.

Author : Martin Bell,John Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134591954

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Population Mobility and Indigenous Peoples in Australasia and North America by Martin Bell,John Taylor Pdf

This book draws together relevant research findings to produce the first comprehensive overview of Indigenous peoples' mobility. Chapters draw from a range of disciplinary sources, and from a diversity of regions and nation-states. Within nations, mobility is the key determinant of local population change, with implications for service delivery, needs assessment, and governance. Mobility also provides a key indicator of social and economic transformation. As such, it informs both social theory and policy debate. For much of the twentieth century conventional wisdom anticipated the steady convergence of socio-demographic trends, seeing this as an inevitable concomitant of the development process. However, the patterns and trends in population movement observed in this book suggest otherwise, and provide a forceful manifestation of changing race relations in these new world settings.