Lecture 9:
“A New Northern Vision”? Administrative and Social Change to the late 1960s

 

Lecture Outline

PowerPoint Slides

 

Readings:

Morrison, “The New North,” in True North, 152-167.

Kenneth Coates, “’Betweixt and Between’: The Anglican Church and the Children of the Carcross (Chooutla) Residential School, 1911-1954,” in Coates and Morrison, Interpreting, 150-68.

David Damas, “The Welfare State Policy,” in Arctic Migrants Arctic Villagers, 107-131 (reserve).

 

Film: Broken Promises: The High Arctic Relocation (52 mins)

 

Further Reading

Economic Development in the Northwest Territories Since 1940

Asch, Michael, "Capital and Economic Development:  A Critical Reappraised of the Recommendations of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Commission," in Interpreting Canada's North, eds. Kenneth Coates and William R. Morrison, pp. 299-308

Berger, T.R., Northern Frontier, Northern Homeland, 2 v. (1977)

Bone, R.M., The Geography of the Canadian North, (1992)

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

Dacks, Gurston, A Choice of Futures.  Politics in the Canadian North (1981)

Dene Nation, Denendeh (1984)

Finnie, R., Canada Moves North (1942)

Gray, E., Super Pipe (1979)

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

Hodgins, B.W. et al, The Canadian North: Source of Wealth or Vanishing Heritage (1977)

Lotz, Jim, Northern Realities (1970)

McCallum, Hugh and Karmel, Moratorium (1977)

Morisset, J., Les chiens s'entre-devorent. Indiens, Blancs et Métis dans le grand nord canadien (1977)

Page, R., Northern Development.  The Canadian Dilemma (1986)

Pearse, Peter, ed., The Mackenzie Pipeline (1974)

Peacock, D., People, Peregrines, and Arctic Pipelines (1977)

Rea, J.K., The Political Economy of the Canadian North: An Interpretation of the Course of Development in the Northern Territories to the Early 1960's (1968)

Rea, J.K., The Political Economy of Northern Development (1976)

Swayze, C., Hard Choices, A Life of Tom Berger (1987)

Turner, Dick, Sunrise on the Mackenzie (1977)

Watkins, Mel, ed., Dene Nation: The Colony Within (1977)

Wonders, W.C., ed., Canada's Changing North (1971)

Zaslow, M., "Development of the Mackenzie Basin" (Ph.D. Thesis, 1957, on microfilm in the university library)

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

 

On the High Arctic Relocation

Marcus, A.R., Relocating Eden: The Image and Politics of Inuit Exile in the Canadian Arctic (1995)

Tester, F.J. and P. Kulchyski, Tammarniit. Inuit Relocation in the Eastern Arctic, 1939-63