Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Navigating Northern Environmental History

Stephen Bocking

Part 1: Forming Northern Colonial Environments

2. Moving through the Margins: The “All-Canadian” Route to the Klondike and the Strange Experience of the Teslin Trail

Jonathan Peyton

3. The Experimental State of Nature: Science and the Canadian Reindeer Project in the Interwar North

Andrew Stuhl

4. Shaped by the Land: An Envirotechnical History of a Canadian Bush Plane

Marionne Cronin

5. Many Tiny Traces: Antimodernism and Northern Exploration between the Wars

Tina Adcock

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

Liza Piper

7. Hope in the Barrenlands: Northern Development and Sustainability’s Canadian History

Tina Loo

8. Western Electric Turns North: Technicians and the Transformation of the Cold War Arctic

Matthew Farish and P. Whitney Lackenbauer

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

Hans M. Carlson

10. Imposing Territoriality: First Nation Land Claims and the Transformation of Human-Environment Relations in the Yukon

Paul Nadasdy

11. Ghost Towns and Zombie Mines: The Historical Dimensions of Mine Abandonment, Reclamation, and Redevelopment in the Canadian North

Arn Keeling and John Sandlos

12. Toxic Surprises: Contaminants and Knowledge in the Northern Environment

Stephen Bocking

13. Climate Anti-Politics: Scale, Locality, and Arctic Climate Change

Emilie Cameron

Conclusion

14. Encounters in Northern Environmental History

Stephen Bocking

Contributors

Index