• Early Days on the Yukon: And the Story of Its Gold Finds - (Book - Amazon.ca) : William Ogilvie was the first surveyor of the Yukon Territory. Ogilvie is a great storyteller and delights in recounting unique anecdotes and incidents not discussed in other Klondike writings. Originally published in 1913, this book is of great historical significance to anyone interested in the Klondike Gold Rush or the modern development of the north.
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• In Order to Live Untroubled: Inuit of the Central Artic 1550 to 1940 -

  (Book - Amazon.ca) : Despite the long human history of the Canadian central arctic, there is still little historical writing on the Inuit peoples of this vast region. Although archaeologists and anthropologists have studied ancient and contemporary Inuit societies, the Inuit world in the crucial period from the 16th to the 20th centuries remains largely undescribed and unexplained. In Order to Live Untroubled helps fill this 400-year gap by providing the first, broad, historical survey of the Inuit peoples of the central arctic. This book may also be available from Amazon.com (United States) and Amazon.co.uk (United Kingdom). Click on links to check for availability.

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• Land of the Midnight Sun: A History of the Yukon -

  (Book - Amazon.ca) : This completely revised edition of Land of the Midnight Sun, first published in 1988, is a comprehensive overview of Yukon history. This book places the Klondike Gold Rush within the broader sweep of the past, giving particular emphasis to the role of First Nations people and Aboriginal-white relations and to the lengthy struggle of Yukoners to find their place in the Canadian confederation. This book may also be available from Amazon.com (United States) and Amazon.co.uk (United Kingdom). Click on links to check for availability.

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• Names and Nunavut: Culture and Identity in the Inuit Homeland -

  (Book - Amazon.ca) : Since the late 1970s, the author has looked at naming and renaming, cross-culturally and internationally, with particular attention to the effects of colonisation and liberation. The experience of Inuit in Canada is an example of both. Colonisation is only part of the Nunavut experience. Contrary to the dire predictions of cultural genocide theorists, Inuit culture particularly traditional naming has remained extremely strong, and is in the midst of a renaissance. Here is a ground-breaking study by the founder of the discipline of political onomastics. This book may also be available from Amazon.com (United States) and Amazon.co.uk (United Kingdom). Click on links to check for availability.

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• Nunavut Generations: Change & Continuity in Canadian Inuit Communities -

  (Book - Amazon.ca) : Change in arctic populations has not been a sudden phenomenon, but rather a gradual process that has occurred over a number of generations. In this longitudinal case study, McElroy introduces readers to four Baffin Island communities in the eastern Canadian Arctic and focuses on the challenges and hardships they face in transition from hunting-gathering lifestyles to wage employment and political participation in towns. Through long-term fieldwork, historical material, and life histories collected from elders, Nunavut Generations richly illustrates political and ecological change alongside native stability and self-determination. This book may also be available from Amazon.com (United States) and Amazon.co.uk (United Kingdom). Click on links to check for availability.

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• Saqiyuq: Stories from the Lives of Three Inuit Women -

  (Book - Amazon.ca) : Saqiyuq is the name the Inuit give to a strong wind that suddenly shifts direction. "Saqiyuq: Stories from the Lives of Three Inuit Women" is a vivid portrait of the changing nature of life in the Arctic during the twentieth century. Through their life stories, a grandmother, daughter, and granddaughter take us on a remarkable journey in which the cycles of life - childhood, adolescence, marriage, birthing and child rearing - are presented against the contrasting experiences of three successive generations. This book is also available from Amazon.com (United States) and Amazon.co.uk (United Kingdom). Click on links for details.

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• The Prospectors' Pick: The People of the Yellowknife Gold Boom 1936-1951 -

  (Book - Amazon.ca) : Immediately after WWII ended in 1949, Yellowknife, located 500 kilometers south of the Arctic Circle in the Northwest Territories, was already the centre of a gold boom with three new producing gold mines. It attracted prospectors, promoters, entrepreneurs, politicians, recently discharged servicemen, the mining and geological fraternities of the world, bankers, businessmen, bush pilots, preachers, teachers, nurses, natives, field and bush men, newly married couples, and rascals. Prospecting spread over all the NWT and although thousands of small gold discoveries were made, but most proved to be negative. The old town of Yellowknife soon became an overcrowded, unsanitary place, but in spite of healthy problems everyone had their own play and went about their daily businesses. A new town site was soon developed, and it is now the capital of the NWT and the centre of the Canadian diamond business. I was part of the boom and life there was, to say the least, exciting. This book may also be available from Amazon.com (United States) and Amazon.co.uk (United Kingdom). Click on links to check for availability.

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• Trader King: The Thrilling Story of Forty Years' Service in the North-West Territories -

  (Book - Amazon.ca) : Trader King is the graphic and powerfully moving story of one of the most fearless and colourful traders of the Canadian North - William Cornwallis King - as told to Mary Weeks in the 1930's. Working for the Hudson's Bay Company from 1862 to 1903, King's story is an exciting first-hand account of the early days of the fur trade in Canada. This book is also available from Amazon.com (United States) and Amazon.co.uk (United Kingdom). Click on links for details.

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• Uqalurait: An Oral History of Nunavut - (Book - Amazon.ca) : Thousands of quotes from over three hundred Inuit elders about their culture and customs cover all aspects of traditional life, from raising children to hunting, the land, and architecture, to belief systems, cosmology, and the Inuit's remarkable ability to make do with what they had.
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