Lecture 1:
The Challenges of Northern History; Defining the North

 

Lecture Outline

Film: Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner) - part 1

Weekly Readings:

Morrison, “Imagination and Reality” in True North, 1-16.

Hamelin, “Images of the North” in Interpreting Canada's North, eds, K. Coates and W.R. Morrison, 7-17.

Coates et al, Arctic Front, 1-8.

 

Further Reading:

Kerry Abel and Ken S. Coates, “The North and the Nation,” in Northern Visions: New Perspectives on the North in Canadian History, 7-21.

Robert M. Bone, The Canadian North: Issues and Challenges, 3rd ed. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2009. Chapters 1-2 (pp. 1-57).

K. Coates, "The Rediscovery of the North: Toward a Conceptual Framework for the Study of the North/Northern Regions," The Northern Review #12/13 (Summer/Winter 1994): 15-43.

Daniel Francis, "Great White Hope," Chapter 7, National Dreams: Myth, Memory, and Canadian History. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 1997.

Shelagh Grant, “Arctic Wilderness and Other Mythologies,” Journal of Canadian Studies33(2) 1998, 27-42

Shelagh S. Grant, "Myth of the North in the Canadian Ethos," The Northern Review #3/4 (Summer/Winter 1989).

Sherill Grace. Canada and the idea of north. Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001.