Technology and planning in the North: Past, present and future
Subject
Abstract
Before the Second World War, the
northern territories of Canada were a sparsely
populated frontier of aboriginal peoples, fur traders,
miners and adventurers. Many ideas about the North
were based on the Klondike Gold Rush and the
stories of nineteenth-century polar explorers.
Outsiders typically viewed the entire region as a land
of ice and snow, occupied by subsistence hunters
and gatherers. This perception was largely true.