The development of reindeer husbandry in Canada
The first reindeer were introduced into Canada for humanitarian rather than commercial reasons. Encouraged by the success achieved in Alaska, where 1280 reindeer imported by Dr Sheldon Jackson from Siberia between 1892 and 1902 had increased in a few years to several times that number, the missionar...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0032247400056230 2024-03-03T08:46:43+00:00 The development of reindeer husbandry in Canada Treude, Erhard 1968 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400056230 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400056230 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Polar Record volume 14, issue 88, page 15-19 ISSN 0032-2474 1475-3057 General Earth and Planetary Sciences Ecology Geography, Planning and Development journal-article 1968 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400056230 2024-02-08T08:43:58Z The first reindeer were introduced into Canada for humanitarian rather than commercial reasons. Encouraged by the success achieved in Alaska, where 1280 reindeer imported by Dr Sheldon Jackson from Siberia between 1892 and 1902 had increased in a few years to several times that number, the missionary physician of Labrador, Wilfred Grenfell, hoped to develop a reindeer meat-and-dairy industry in his region, where tuberculosis was common and infant mortality high. In 1908, with financial support from the Boston Transcript and the Canadian Department of Agriculture, he bought 300 reindeer in Norway and brought them to St Anthony, Newfoundland. Under the supervision of four Lapp herders, the animals quickly adjusted to their new environment Article in Journal/Newspaper Newfoundland Polar Record reindeer husbandry Alaska Siberia Cambridge University Press Newfoundland Canada Norway St. Anthony ENVELOPE(-55.597,-55.597,51.370,51.370) Polar Record 14 88 15 19 |
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The first reindeer were introduced into Canada for humanitarian rather than commercial reasons. Encouraged by the success achieved in Alaska, where 1280 reindeer imported by Dr Sheldon Jackson from Siberia between 1892 and 1902 had increased in a few years to several times that number, the missionary physician of Labrador, Wilfred Grenfell, hoped to develop a reindeer meat-and-dairy industry in his region, where tuberculosis was common and infant mortality high. In 1908, with financial support from the Boston Transcript and the Canadian Department of Agriculture, he bought 300 reindeer in Norway and brought them to St Anthony, Newfoundland. Under the supervision of four Lapp herders, the animals quickly adjusted to their new environment |
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