Lecture 9:
Militarizing the Canadian North: WW2 and the Cold War

 

Lecture Outline

Film: Look North, National Film Board of Canada (20 mins)

 

Weekly Readings:

Morrison, “Invasion: War and the Militarization of the North,” in True North, 130-151.

William R. Morrison, “Eagle over the Arctic: Americans in the Canadian North, 1867-1885,” in Coates and Morrison, Interpreting, 169-84.

 

Optional Readings:

K.C. Eyre, Forty years of military activity in the Canadian north, 1947-87,"Arctic 40/4 (1987), 292-99 (e-reserve). http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic40-4-292.pdf

P.W. Lackenbauer and M. Farish, The Cold War on Canadian Soil: Militarizing a Northern Environment, Environmental History 12/3 (October 2007).

Kevin McMahon, “Friends,” in Arctic Twilight, 13-64 (reserve).

 

Further Reading on the Second World War and the Canadian North

Coates, K., and W. R. Morrison. Working the North: Labor and the Northwest Defense Projects 1942-1946. Anchorage: University of Alaska Press, 1994.

Lackenbauer, P. Whitney. “Right and Honourable: Mackenzie King, Canadian-American Bilateral Relations, and Canadian Sovereignty in the Northwest, 1943-1948” in Mackenzie King: Citizenship and Community eds. J. English, K. McLaughlin, and P.W. Lackenbauer. Toronto: Robin Brass, 2002: 151-68.

 

Further Reading on Arctic Sovereignty and Security, 1945-69

For a detailed list of resources (published and archival), see P.W. Lackenbauer, Matthew Farish and Jennifer Arthur, The DEW Line: A Bibliography and Documentary Resource List (2005).

Bankes, N.D., "Forty Years of Sovereignty Assertion in the Arctic," Arctic, 40, 4 (Dec. 1987): 287-291

Barry, P.S., The Canol Project (1985)

Coates, K.S., ed., The Alaska Highway.  Papers of the 40th Anniversary Symposium (1985)

Coates, K.S., P.W. Lackenbauer, W.R. Morrison, and G. Poelzer, Arctic Front (2008)

Hamilton, John David, Arctic Revolution. Social Changes in the Northwest Territories 1935-1994 (1994)

Diubaldo, R., "The Role of the Arctic Islands in Defence," in A Century of Canada's Arctic Islands, 1880-1980, ed. Morris Zaslow

Duffy, R. Quinn, The Road to Nunavut.  The Progress of the Eastern Arctic Inuit since the Second World War (1987)

Dziuban, S.W., Military Relations Between the United States and Canada 1939-1945 (1959)

Grant, Shelagh, Sovereignty or Security? Government Policy in the Canadian North, 1936-1950 (1988)

Jockel, Joseph T., No Boundaries Upstairs: Canada, the United States and the Origins of North American Air Defence (1987)

Johnston, V. Kenneth, "Canada's Title to the Arctic Island," Canadian Historical Review, 14 (1933): 24-41

Kirton, John and Don Munton, "Protecting the Canadian Arctic: The Manhattan Voyages, 1969-1970," in Canadian Foreign Policy: Selected Cases (1992), pp. 206-221.

Lackenbauer, P.W., ed. Canada and Arctic Sovereignty and Security: Historical Perspectives. Calgary Papers in Military and Strategic Studies. Calgary: Centre for Military and Strategic Studies/University of Calgary Press, 2011. ii, 448 pp. E-version available online at http://cpmss.synergiesprairies.ca/cpmss/index.php/cpmss/issue/view/1.

Lloyd, Trevor, "Canada's Strategic North," International Journal, 2 (1946-47)

Pharand, Donat, The Northwest Passage: Arctic Straits

Phillips, R.A.J., Canada's North, pp. 99-113

Smith, Gordon W., Sovereignty in the North: The Canadian Aspect of an International Problem: in The Arctic Frontier, ed. R.S. Macdonald, pp. 194-255

Sutherland, R.J., "The Strategic Significance of the Canadian Arctic," in The Arctic Frontier, ed. R.S. Macdonald, pp. 256-278

Zaslow, M., ed. A Century of Canada's Arctic Islands (1980)

Zaslow, M., The Northward Expansion of Canada, 1914-1967 (1988)