Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Introduction
4. Navigating Northern Environmental History 3
5. Forming Northern Colonial Environments
6. Moving through the Margins: The “All-Canadian” Route to the Klondike and the Strange Experience of the Teslin Trail 35
7. The Experimental State of Nature: Science and the Canadian Reindeer Project in the Interwar North 63
8. Shaped by the Land: An Envirotechnical History of a Canadian Bush Plane 103
9. Many Tiny Traces: Antimodernism and Northern Exploration Between the Wars 131
10. Transformations and the Modern North
11. From Subsistence to Nutrition: The Canadian State’s Involvement in Food and Diet in the North, 1900–1970 181
12. Hope in the Barrenlands: Northern Development and Sustainability’s Canadian History 223
13. Western Electric Turns North: Technicians and the Transformation of the Cold War Arctic 261
14. Environmental History and the Contemporary North
15. “That’s the Place Where I Was Born”: History, Narrative Ecology, and Politics in Canada’s North 295
16. Imposing Territoriality: First Nation Land Claims and the Transformation of Human-Environment Relations in the Yukon 333
17. Ghost Towns and Zombie Mines: The Historical Dimensions of Mine Abandonment, Reclamation, and Redevelopment in the Canadian North 377
18. Toxic Surprises: Contaminants and Knowledge in the Northern Environment 421
19. Climate Anti-Politics: Scale, Locality, and Arctic Climate Change 465
20. Conclusion
21. Encounters in Northern Environmental History 499
22. Contributors 515
23. Index 519