Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: North by Northwest: Harold Innis and “the Advancement of Knowledge of the Canadian North” 1
6. Innis and Northern Canada: Fur Trade and Nation 51
7. Harold Innis, Peter Pond, and the Fur Trade 65
8. The Northern Vision of Harold Innis 73
9. Harold Innis’s Overlooked 1924 Memo on Wildlife Conservation in Northern Canada: The State, Staples, and the Economics of Conservation 100
10. A Confidential Memorandum on the Conservation of Wild Life in the Mackenzie District, prepared at the request of Mr. Hoyes Lloyd, and submitted to him by Mr. Harold A. Innis of the Department of Political Economy, University of Toronto 122
11. Innis, Biss, and Industrial Circuitry in the Canadian North, 1921–1965 127
12. Harold Adams Innis and Northern Manitoba 149
13. The Newfoundland and Labrador Fieldwork of Harold Adams Innis 167
14. Bringing Nordicity to the South City: Harold Innis as Reviewer of Books on the North, 1928–1944 186
15. North-South Networks of Knowledge: Harold Innis, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Canadian Social Science Research Council’s Arctic Survey 211
16. Arctic Surveillance: Innis, the Arctic Survey, and Canadian State Agencies 227
17. Northern Enlightenment: Innis’s 1945 Trip to Russia and Its Aftermath 246
18. Towards the “Second Renaissance”: A Russian Perspective on Innis’s Russian Diary 273
19. Innis and Environmental Politics: Practical Insights from the Yukon 295
20. Innis and I on the Highway of the Atom 326
21. Bibliography 355
22. Contributors 387
23. Index 393