Research Catalog

Title

Churchill Hudson Bay : a guide to natural and cultural heritage / by Lorraine E. Brandson.

Author

Brandson, Lorraine E.

Publication

Churchill, Man. : Churchill Eskimo Museum, [2011]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Catholic Church. Diocese of Churchill-Hudson Bay.
• Eskimo Museum.

Description

xi, 384 p. : ill., maps; 21 cm.

Alternative Title

Churchill, Hudson Bay

Subject

• Autochtones > Churchill > Antiquités > Guides
• Biens culturels > Churchill > Guides
• Churchill (Man.) > Guidebooks
• Churchill (Man.) > Guides
• Cultural property > Churchill > Guidebooks
• Hudson Bay Region > Guidebooks
• Hudson, Région de la baie d' > Guides
• Native peoples > Churchill > Antiquities > Guidebooks
• Natural history > Churchill > Guidebooks
• Sciences naturelles > Churchill > Guides

Genre/Form

Guidebooks.

Note

• Co-published by Diocese of Churchill Hudson Bay.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-381) and index.

Language (note)

• Includes some text in Cree, Inuktitut, and Sayisi-Dene.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 1. Chronology of Churchill -- 2. Aboriginal footprints on frozen horizons -- Early occupations by Palaeo-Eskimos [Paleo-Eskimos, Pre-Dorset, Dorset, Thule] -- The Caribou Inuit [Qamutiik-sled, Iglu [igloo] -- The Sayisi-Dene (People under the Sun) and the Maskekowininiwak (Swampy Cree) [Indians, Native peoples, First Nations -- Place Names, seasonal cycle] -- A new nation -- the Metis [Bannock recipe (p.38)] -- 3. Henry Hudson
• 4. The Fur trade era [importance of beaver] -- Prince of Wales Fort [construction, layout, life of Hudson Bay Company employees] -- Cape Merry -- Sloop Cove -- York Factory (1684-1957) -- Churchill Post life 1783 to the 1930s [York boat, routes, region mail packets, Inuit sled dogs (p. 88+) -- 5. Streets of Churchill -- 6. Steel tracks and grain [Hudson Bay Railway] -- Hudson Bay as a transportation route
• 7. Geology and paleontology -- 8. Atmospheric Science and Astronomy [historic temperatures, Arctic mirages, sun dogs, Northern lights -- Aurora borealis, Aboriginal interpretations] -- Hudson Bay [sea ice, freeze-up, tides] -- Northern ecology [tundra, taiga, peats -- fens -- bogs, flora -- plants -- herbs, mosses, lichens, berries] -- Diversity of life -- Vertebrates : Sea mammals [whales, whaling, seals, polar bears], land mammals [shrews, hares, squirrels, beavers, lemmings, wolves, foxes, wolverines, lynx, deer, caribou, moose, muskox], birds, fish, amphibians -- Invertebrates : terrestrial arthropods [mosquitos, flies]

ISBN

• 9780986937101
• 098693710X

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library