Canadian History and Environment Series

Alan MacEachern, Series Editor

ISSN 1925-3702 (Print) ISSN 1925-3710 (Online)

The Canadian History & Environment series of edited collections brings together scholars from across the academy and beyond to explore the relationships between people and nature in Canada’s past. Published simultaneously in print and open-access form, the series then communicates that scholarship to the world.

Alan MacEachern, Founding Director

NiCHE: Network in Canadian History & Environment

Nouvelle initiative canadienne en histoire de l’environnement

http://niche-canada.org

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

© 2015 Arn Keeling and John Sandlos

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

          Mining and communities in Northern Canada : history, politics, and memory / edited by Arn Keeling and John Sandlos.

(Canadian history and environment series, ISSN 1925-3702 ; no. 3) Includes bibliographical references and index. Issued in print and electronic formats. ISBN 978-1-55238-804-4 (paperback).—ISBN 978-1-55238-806-8 (pdf).—ISBN 978-1-55238-807-5 (epub).—ISBN 978-1-55238-808-2 (mobi)

          1. Mineral industries—Canada, Northern—History.  2. Mineral industries—Political aspects—Canada, Northern.  3. Mineral industries—Social aspects—Canada, Northern.  4. Mineral industries—Environmental aspects—Canada, Northern.  5. Mineral industries—Economic aspects—Canada, Northern.  6. Native peoples—Canada, Northern—History.  7. Oral history—Canada, Northern.  8. Collective memory—Canada, Northern.  I. Keeling, Arn, author, editor  II. Sandlos, John, 1970-, author, editor  III. Series: Canadian history and environment series ; 3

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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 through the Canada Book Fund for our publishing activities. We acknowledge the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program.

This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, through the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

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