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Historical maps: Arctic (BAnQ)
Corpus of fifteen old maps dating from the 17th to the 20th century. These documents bear witness to the Arctic expeditions and explorations carried out by several generations of European explorers in search of the Northwest Passage. These documents reflect the advancement of knowledge of the Arctic coastline of North America. The information on these maps is based among other things on the discoveries of Martin Frobisher, William Baffin, etc.
Subjects: Baffin bay, Canadian arctic, Cartography, Circumpolar Arctic, Davis Strait, Greenland, Hudson Strait, Maps, Northwest Passage, Arctic archipelago
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- Free - Open Access
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- Open Access
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Hunter with Harpoon (BAnQ)
Published fifty years ago under the title Harpoon of the Hunter, Markoosie Patsauq’s novel helped establish the genre of Indigenous fiction in Canada. This new English translation unfolds the story of Kamik, a young hero who comes to manhood while on a perilous hunt for a wounded polar bear. In this astonishing tale of a people struggling for survival in a brutal environment, Patsauq describes a life in the Canadian Arctic as one that is reliant on cooperation and vigilance.
Subjects: Canadian arctic, Indigenous authors, Indigenous literature, Inuit
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- Reserved Access
- Printed document
- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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- BAnQ Subscribers
- Print Document
- Reserved Access
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Natural Sciences
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: Arctic archipelago, Arctic Ocean, Canadian arctic, Exploration
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- Free - Open Access
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- Open Access
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Natural Sciences
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: Canadian arctic, Indigenous peoples, Joseph-Elzéar Bernier, Postcards, Missionaries, Northern Quebec, Photographs
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- Free - Open Access
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- Open Access
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
NFB / Géographie et géologie – Arctique canadien (National Film Board of Canada)
Selection of National Film Board of Canada films, by subject. Some of the films listed here are freely available.
Subjects: Videos, Documentaries, Films, Labrador, Northern Quebec, Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Canadian arctic, Indigenous peoples, NFB, Yukon
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- Free - Open Access
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- Open Access
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- Natural Sciences
- Engineering and Technology
- Humanities and Social Sciences
NFB / Geography and Geology – Artic Region (National Film Board of Canada) (National Film Board of Canada)
Selection of National Film Board of Canada films, by subject. Some of the films listed here are freely available.
Subjects: Labrador, Northern Quebec, Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Canadian arctic, Indigenous peoples, NFB, Yukon, Videos, Documentaries, Films
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- Free - Open Access
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- Open Access
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- Natural Sciences
- Engineering and Technology
- Humanities and Social Sciences