Canadian History and Environment Series
Alan MacEachern, Series Editor
ISSN 1925-3702 (Print) ISSN 1925-3710 (Online)
The Canadian History & Environment series brings together scholars from
across the academy and beyond to explore the relationships between people
and nature in Canada’s past.
Alan MacEachern, Founding Director
NiCHE: Network in Canadian History & Environment
Nouvelle initiative canadienne en histoire de l’environnement
No. 1 ∙ A Century of Parks Canada, 1911–2011
Edited by Claire Elizabeth Campbell
No. 2 ∙ Historical GIS Research in Canada
Edited by Jennifer Bonnell and Marcel Fortin
No. 3 ∙ Mining and Communities in Northern Canada:
History, Politics, and Memory
Edited by Arn Keeling and John Sandlos
No. 4 ∙ Canadian Countercultures and the Environment
Edited by Colin M. Coates
No. 5 ∙ Moving Natures:
Mobility and the Environment in Canadian History
Edited by Ben Bradley, Jay Young, and Colin M. Coates
No. 6 ∙ Border Flows:
A Century of the Canadian-American Water Relationship
Edited by Lynne Heasley and Daniel Macfarlane
No. 7 ∙ Ice Blink:
Navigating Northern Environmental History
Edited by Stephen Bocking and Brad Martin
© 2017 Stephen Bocking and Brad Martin
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Ice blink : navigating northern environmental history / edited by Stephen Bocking and Brad Martin.
(Canadian history and environment series, 1925-3710 ; 7)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in print and electronic formats.
ISBN 978-1-55238-854-9 (paperback).—ISBN 978-1-55238-855-6 (open access PDF).—ISBN 978-1-55238-856-3 (PDF).— ISBN 978-1-55238-857-0 (EPUB).—ISBN 978-1-55238-858-7 (MOBI)
1. Human ecology—History. 2. Canada, Northern—History. 3. Canada, Northern--Environmental conditions. 4. Canada—Boundaries—Arctic regions. 5. Native peoples—Canada, Northern—Government relations. 6. Native peoples—Canada, Northern—Politics and government. 7. Arctic regions—International status. I. Bocking, Stephen Alexander, 1959-, editor I. Martin, Brad, 1972-, editor III. Series: Canadian history and environment series ; 7
GF512.N6I23 2016 971.9 C2016-907175-8
C2016-907176-6
The University of Calgary Press acknowledges the support of the Government of Alberta through the Alberta Media Fund for our publications. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada. We acknowledge the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program.
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