Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Defining the north -- 1. A Circumpolar Index -- 2. The Arctic Basin and the Arctic: Some Definitions -- II. Historical Perspectives -- 3. The Identification of Vinland -- 4 . Early Geographical Concepts of the Northwest Passage -- 5. Voyageurs' Highway: The Geography and Logistics of the Canadian Fur Trade -- 6. Fur Trading Posts in the Mackenzie Region Up to 1850 -- 7. The Sponsors of Canadian Arctic Exploration: 1844-1859 -- 8. Albert Peter Low -- 9. Discovery of Two Islands in Eastern Foxe Basin -- 10. Success of the Plaisted Expedition -- 11. The North in Canadian History -- III. Physical Nature -- 12. How the Mackenzie River Was Made -- 13. Arctic Landforms -- 14. Fluvial Processes in the High Arctic -- 15. Climate and Zonal Divisions of the Boreal Forest Formation in Eastern Canada -- 16. Organic Terrain and Geomorphology -- 17. Permafrost Map of Canada -- 18. Wind Chill in Northern Canada -- 19. The Ecology of Snow -- 20. Migrating Caribou: Barren-ground Herds Face a Serious Threat to Survival -- IV. Native Peoples -- 21. The Fragments of Eskimo Prehistory -- 22. Changing Patterns of Indian Trapping in the Canadian Subarctic -- 23. Changing Settlement Patterns Amongst the Mackenzie Eskimos of the Canadian North Western Arctic -- V. Economic Resources -- 24. About Our Untold Resources -- 25. The Montferre Mining Region, Labrador-Ungava -- 26. Oil's Last Frontier -- 27. Arctic Petroleum Potential -- 28. The Forests of Northern Canada -- 29. Reindeer Resource in the Mackenzie Delta, 1968 -- 30. Remarks on Eskimo Sealing and the Harp Seal Controversy -- VI. Transportation and Communications -- 31. Transportation as a Factor in Northern Development -- 32. Transportation and the Settlement Frontier in the Mackenzie Valley Area.

33. Communications in the North -- VII. Regionalism and Northern Settlements -- 34. An Attempt to Regionalize the Canadian North -- 35. "Regions" and Identity in the North: Some Notes -- 36. Settlement Types and Community Organization in Northern Canada -- 37. The Northern Urban Scene -- VIII. Problems of the North -- 38. Bewildered Hunters in the 20th Century -- 39. The Polar Continental Shelf Project -- 40. Boundary Problems Relating to the Sovereignty of the Canadian Arctic -- 41. Canada's Northern Policy: Retrospect and Prospect -- 42. The Ecology of the North: knowledge is the key to sane development -- Maps -- 1. The Nordic World -- 2. Some Significant Boundaries -- 3. Main Waterways of the Canadian Fur Trade -- 4. Mackenzie Valley to 1850: Fur Trading Posts -- 5A. The Labrador Peninsula: Journeys of A. P. Low -- 5B. Distribution of Permafrost and Ground Temperature Observation Sites in Canada -- 6A. Tree Lines of Boreal Softwoods -- 6B. Proposed Forest Regions -- 7A. Thermal Efficiency -- 7B. Moisture Index -- 8A. Mean Wind Chill Factor, January -- 8B. Mean Wind Chill Factor, April -- 9A. Mean Wind Chill Factor, July -- 9B. Mean Wind Chill Factor, October -- 10A. Mean Annual Number of Degree Days -- 10B. Mean Wind Chill Factor, Annual -- 11. Map of the Region around Snowdrift, NWT -- 12. Distribution by Settlement of the Mackenzie Eskimos -- 13. Mining Activity in the Montferre Region -- 14. Transportation Systems in Northern Canada -- 15A. Northern Regions of Canada -- 15B. Locations of Settlements Cited -- 16. Canada -- Note on the Editor -- The Contributors.