Herschel Island Qikiqtaryuk: A Natural and Cultural History Of Yukon's Arctic Island
by Burn, Christopher R
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Herschel Island Qikiqtaryuk: A Natural and Cultural History Of Yukon's Arctic Island, Burn, Christopher R. Published by University of Calgary Press, 2012. First Edition. Glossy card covers. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. xiii, 242 pp., index; illustrated throughout. In as new condition without markings etc.
Herschel Island is a remarkable place. For hundreds of years, it sustained aboriginal people who lived off the sea, and its shelter provided a base for the western Arctic whaling fleet in the 1890s. It was named by John Franklin during a voyage to establish sovereignty over arctic North America, and it was the location of the first police detachment in the Canadian Arctic. The rise of the fur trade in the 1910s and 1920s led to the Inuvialuit becoming the wealthiest aboriginal people in Canada at the time. Herschel Island was a logistical centre during the offshore oil boom of the 1970s and early 1980s, but it is now designated as a territorial park, a reserve established as a result of the Inuvialuit Final Agreement. As a wilderness park, it is a semi-contained ecosystem, and presents land, ocean, and coastal environments.
Herschel Island is a remarkable place. For hundreds of years, it sustained aboriginal people who lived off the sea, and its shelter provided a base for the western Arctic whaling fleet in the 1890s. It was named by John Franklin during a voyage to establish sovereignty over arctic North America, and it was the location of the first police detachment in the Canadian Arctic. The rise of the fur trade in the 1910s and 1920s led to the Inuvialuit becoming the wealthiest aboriginal people in Canada at the time. Herschel Island was a logistical centre during the offshore oil boom of the 1970s and early 1980s, but it is now designated as a territorial park, a reserve established as a result of the Inuvialuit Final Agreement. As a wilderness park, it is a semi-contained ecosystem, and presents land, ocean, and coastal environments.
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- Herschel Island Qikiqtaryuk: A Natural and Cultural History Of Yukon's Arctic Island
- Author
- Burn, Christopher R
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- ISBN 10
- 0988000911
- ISBN 13
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- This edition first published
- 2012
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