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Mining and communities in Northern Canada: MC-1

Mining and communities in Northern Canada

MC-1

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Glossary of Key Mining Terms

A Note on Terminology

Summary of Key Locations and Characteristics of Case Study Mine Sites

Introduction (Arn Keeling and John Sandlos)

The Complex Legacy of Mining in Northern Canada

Section 1: Mining and Memory

1| Arn Keeling and Patricia Boulter

From Igloo to Mine Shaft: Inuit Labour and Memory at the Rankin Inlet Nickel Mine

2| Sarah M. Gordon

Narratives Unearthed, or, How an Abandoned Mine Doesn’t Really Abandon You

3| Alexandra Winton and Joella Hogan

“It’s Just Natural”: First Nation Family History and the Keno Hill Silver Mine

4|Jane Hammond

Gender, Labour, and Community in a Remote Mining Town

5| John Sandlos

“A Mix of the Good and the Bad”: Community Memory and the Pine Point Mine

Section 2: History, Politics, and Mining Policy

6| Jean-Sébastien Boutet

The Revival of Québec’s Iron Ore Industry: Perspectives on Mining, Development, and History

7| Hereward Longley

Indigenous Battles for Environmental Protectionand Economic Benefits during the Commercialization of the Alberta Oil Sands, 1967–1986

8| Andrea Procter

Uranium, Inuit Rights, and Emergent Neoliberalism in Labrador, 1956–2012

9| Tyler Levitan and Emilie Cameron

Privatizing Consent? Impact and Benefit Agreements and the Neoliberalization of Mineral Development in the Canadian North

Section 3: Navigating Mine Closure

10| Scott Midgley

Contesting Closure: Science, Politics, and Community Responses to Closing the Nanisivik Mine, Nunavut

11| Heather Green

“There Is No Memory of It Here”: Closure and Memory of the Polaris Mine in Resolute Bay, 1973–2012

12|Kevin O’Reilly

Liability, Legacy, and Perpetual Care: Government Ownership and Management of the Giant Mine, 1999–2015

Conclusion

Notes on Contributors

Bibliography

Index

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