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Hubert Wenger Eskimo Database

Bibliography of literature reporting first contact and first observations of the Inuit, hosted by the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

Subjects: Bibliography, First contact, Inuit, Literature

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Illustrations taken from Quebec periodicals: expeditions in the arctic archipelago (BAnQ)

Dating from the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, these illustrations taken from Quebec periodicals shed light on the wave of expeditions devoted to reaching the northern summit with a view to claiming sovereignty over the North Pole. There are old engravings of the ship Fram on which the Norwegian Fridtjof Nansen made the first transpolar drift, an image illustrating the departure of Captain J. E. Bernier during his Canadian boreal expedition, etc.

Subjects: Canadian arctic, Arctic Ocean, Exploration, Arctic archipelago

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Illustrations taken from Quebec periodicals: Inuit mores and customs (BAnQ)

19th century documentary iconography corpus. These images, taken from Quebec magazines: L’Opinion publique (1870-1883), Monde Illustré (1884-1902,1907) and L’Album Univers (1902-1907), paint a picture of the cultural and social life of the Inuit in a time when photographs were uncommon.

Subjects: Hunting and fishing, Villages, Cultural identity, Inuit

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Images du Nord et de l’Arctique

Photographs and postcards of the Université Laval library, representing First Nations and Inuit, settlers, missionaries, explorers and landscapes from Canada’s Arctic and Northern Quebec. Includes photographs of the Judicial Expedition in 1923 at Pond Inlet (Baffin Island), with Captain Bernier.

Subjects: Postcards, Indigenous peoples, Canadian arctic, Northern Quebec, Photographs, Missionaries, Joseph-Elzéar Bernier

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Indigenous Cultures (Musée McCord Stewart)

5800 archaeological and historical objects from the McCord Stewart Museum documenting the material culture of the First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples of Canada, primarily, but also of Siberia and Greenland.

Subjects: Canada, Siberia, Greenland, Material culture, Archeology, United States, Indigenous peoples

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Indigenous Peoples. North America

Includes extensive monograph, manuscript, newspaper, periodical and photograph collections. McGill has text mining rights for Gale Databases for our researchers. Please contact a librarian for more information.

Subjects: Primary Sources, Indigenous peoples, North America

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