Atik^u

Social History of the Eastern Arctic Database

This database contains abstracts of documents that deal principally with what is now Nunavut Territory and includes other material from the Inuvialuit Settlement Area, the Northwest Territories and Nunavik (Arctic Quebec).Designed to provide users with access to documents related to the social history of the Eastern Arctic that are in the archives of Canada. Contains references only.

Subjects: History, Nunavut, Inuit, Eastern Arctic, Primary Sources

Share this resource

RIS

SPRI Museum catalogue

Bank of more than 5000 images from the collections of the Polar Museum at the Scott Polar Research Institute (University of Cambridge). The images are grouped into eight collections, including the Arctic Material Culture Collection, the Polar Art Collection and the Inuit Art Collection.

Subjects: Scott Polar Research Institute, Images, Inuit, Material culture, Arts

Share this resource

RIS

SPRI Picture Library

One of the largest historical and contemporary photographic libraries related to Arctic and Antarctic exploration, housed by the Scott Polar Research Institute (University of Cambridge). Of particular interest is the Picture Library catalog, which gives access to more than 20,000 photographs of British expeditions carried out between 1845 and 1960.

Subjects: Scott Polar Research Institute, Photographs, Exploration, British expeditions

Share this resource

RIS

The Danish Arctic Institute digital collections

Four distinct digitized collections available in open access grouped together on the same research platform. There are around 175,000 photographs (fotografier), around fifty old maps (kort), more than 2,000 artefacts (kunst og genstande) as well as 445 audio recordings (lyd). The site is partially translated into English.

Subjects: Maps, History, Artifacts, Photographs, Greenland

Share this resource

RIS

The Labrador Inuit Through Moravian Eyes

Provides photographs, maps, drawings, and manuscripts on the 250-year relationship between Moravian missionaries and the Inuit of Labrador.

Subjects: Labrador, Inuit, Missionaries, Moravian, Primary Sources

Share this resource

RIS

Travelogues: North-West Passage

Corpus of two accounts of exploration dedicated to finding the Northwest Passage: an original edition of explorer Henry Ellis’s travelogue, A voyage to the Hudson’s-Bay, volume 2 (1749) and the travelogue of the Captain Christopher Middleton, West of Hudson Bay (1743).

Subjects: Exploration, Hudson Bay, Northwest Passage

Share this resource

RIS