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A Cold Colonialism : Modern Exploration and the Canadian North

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Sheds light on the impact of twentieth-century northern expansion in Canada. Exploration has long been pivotal to southern engagements with northern Canada, but it is most often associated with the nineteenth century or earlier. A Cold Colonialism offers the first extended examination of twentieth-century exploration in the Canadian North. Modern exploration helped Southerners establish and maintain distinctive kinds of colonial and settler colonial power over northern Indigenous homelands. Who explored the North between 1918 and 1965? What forms did exploration take? What did it mean to explorers and others affected by it? Tina Adcock focuses on four representative explorers with richly documented careers: mining engineer George Douglas, surveyor Guy Blanchet, ethnologist Vilhjalmur Stefansson, and filmmaker Richard Finnie. Despite limited experience in and knowledge of the Canadian North, these explorers helped southern militaries, industries, and governments exert control over northern peoples and their lands. Each also claimed belonging in and authority over the North in ways that still resonate among southern settlers in Canada today.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780774870122
  • ISBN-10: 0774870125
  • Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
  • Publish Date: July 2025
  • Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.36 pounds
  • Page Count: 376

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