Report on Explorations in James' Bay and Country East of Hudson Bay [microform]

Report on Explorations in James' Bay and Country East of Hudson Bay [microform]
Author: A P (Albert Peter) 1861-1942 Low
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2021-09-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781014186997

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Marine Fishes of Arctic Canada

Marine Fishes of Arctic Canada
Author: Brian W. Coad
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 633
Release: 2018-01-01
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1442647108

Marine Fishes of Arctic Canada is an accessible and up-to-date study on the diverse marine fish population existing in Canadian waters.

500 Years of New Words

500 Years of New Words
Author: Bill Sherk
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2004-09
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1550025252

If you ever use words and find yourself wondering where they came from, who wrote them first, and why they became necessary, then you will savour 500 Years of New Words, a new volume that takes you on an exciting journey through the English language from the days before Shakespeare to the first decade of the twenty-first century. The entries are arranged not alphabetically but in chronological order based on the earliest known year that each word was printed or written down.

Ice Blink

Ice Blink
Author: Stephen Bocking
Publisher: Canadian History and Environment
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Arctic regions
ISBN: 9781552388549

Cover -- Series Page -- Full Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1: Navigating Northern Environmental History -- Part 1: Forming Northern Colonial Environments -- 2: Moving through the Margins:The "All-Canadian" Route tothe Klondike and the StrangeExperience of the Teslin Trail -- 3: The Experimental State of Nature: Science and the Canadian Reindeer Project in the Interwar North -- 4: Shaped by the Land: An Envirotechnical History of a Canadian Bush Plane -- 5: Many Tiny Traces: Antimodernism and Northern Exploration Between the Wars -- Part 2: Transformations and the Modern North -- 6: From Subsistence to Nutrition: The Canadian State's Involvement in Food and Diet in the North,1900-1970 -- 7: Hope in the Barrenlands: Northern Development and Sustainability's Canadian History -- 8: Western Electric Turns North: Technicians and the Transformation of the Cold War Arctic -- Part 3: Environmental History and the Contemporary North -- 9: "That's the Place Where I Was Born": History, Narrative Ecology, and Politics in Canada's North -- 10: Imposing Territoriality: First Nation Land Claims and the Transformation of Human-Environment Relations in the Yukon -- 11: Ghost Towns and Zombie Mines: The Historical Dimensions of Mine Abandonment, Reclamation, and Redevelopment in the Canadian North -- 12: Toxic Surprises: Contaminants and Knowledgein the Northern Environment -- 13: Climate Anti-Politics: Scale, Locality, and Arctic Climate Change -- Conclusion -- 14: Encounters in Northern Environmental History -- Contributors -- Index

City of Beasts

City of Beasts
Author: Thomas Almeroth-Williams
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Animals
ISBN: 9781526126351

Moving away from the philosophical, fictional, and humanitarian sources used by previous animal studies, this work focuses on the role of animals--horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, and dogs--in shaping Georgian London.an London.

Report on an Exploration of the East Coast of Hudson's Bay 1877 [microform]

Report on an Exploration of the East Coast of Hudson's Bay 1877 [microform]
Author: Robert 1841-1917 Bell
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2021-09-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781014981332

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Engineering Empires

Engineering Empires
Author: B. Marsden
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2004-12-07
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0230504124

Engineers are empire-builders. Watt, Brunel, and others worked to build and expand personal and business empires of material technology and in so doing these engineers also became active agents of political and economic empire. This book provides a fascinating exploration of the cultural construction of the large-scale technologies of empire.