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category: History
published: Dec 2011
ISBN:9781552779408
publisher: James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
imprint: Lorimer

Canada's Colonies

A History of the Yukon and Northwest Territories

by Ken S. Coates

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Furs, gold, whales, oil--the reason for going north has always been to empty the treasure house. The northern territories are vast and sparsely populated, so southern Canadians have been content to consider the North a colony, not a true part of Canada.
Since the first British naval expeditions to the "Frozen North," the history of the region has been romanticised. This book presents that history as seen from the North itself. Ken Coates begins by describing the resilient pre-European cultures of the Dene and Inuit peoples. Chapters are devoted to each period of development--the fur trade, Arctic whaling, the Klondike Gold Rush, military projects like the Alaska Highway, Ottawa's "bureaucratisation" of the North, and the resource projects of recent years.
First published in 1985, this book shows that modern northern politics have deep roots in the true history of "Canada's colonies."

About the Author
Ken S. Coates is the author and editor of more than two dozen books, including The Marshall Decision and Native Rights and #IdleNoMore and the Remaking of Canada. Raised in Whitehorse, he is the Canada Research Chair in Regional Innovation at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan. He lives in Saskatoon.

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