Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword. Introduction. Section 1 : images of Canadian North -- Images of the north / L.-E. Hamelin -- The aesthetics map of the north / I.S. Maclaren. Section 2 : Indians and the advance of Europe -- On the Aboriginal population of the Kutchin / Shepard Krech III -- Of two minds : Dene response to the Mackenzie Missions, 1858-1902 / Kerry Abel -- Periodic shortages, Native welfare, and the Hudson's Bay Company, 1670-1930 / Arthur J. Ray. Section 3 : the gold mining frontier -- Flux and authority in a subarctic society : the Yukon miners in the nineteenth century / Thomas Stone -- The Yukon : northern development in a Canadian-American context / Morris Zaslow. Section 4 : after the gold rush -- "Betwixt and between" : the Anglican Church and the children of the Carcross (Chooutla) Residential School, 1911-1954 / Kenneth Coates -- Eagle over the arctic : Americans in the Canadian North, 1867-1985 / William R. Morrison -- Transiency in the far northwest after the gold rush : the case of the Princess Sophia / K.S. Coates and W.R. Morrison. Section 5 : the Inuit -- Chipewyan and Inuit in the central Canadian subarctic, 1613-1977 / James G.E. Smith and Ernest S. Burch Jr. -- Whaling, Inuit, and the arctic islands / W. Gillies Ross -- Inuit economic responses to Euro-American contacts: Southest Baffin Island, 1824-1940 / Philip Goldring. Section 6 : the modern north -- The politics of health in the fourth world : a northern Canadian example / John D. O'Neil -- Capital and economic development : a critical reappraisal of the recommendations of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Commission / Michael I. Asch -- Canadian contradictions : forty years of northern political development / Frances Abele. Further Reading.