Housing programmes for Eskimos in Northern Canada
The Government of Canada began supplying housing for some of its Eskimo people in the Northwest Territories in 1956. At this date the majority of Eskimos still followed their traditional nomadic way of life and lived in igloos or snow houses during winter, and in skin or canvas tents during summer....
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0032247400060381 2024-03-03T08:44:07+00:00 Housing programmes for Eskimos in Northern Canada Yates, A. B. 1970 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400060381 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400060381 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Polar Record volume 15, issue 94, page 45-50 ISSN 0032-2474 1475-3057 General Earth and Planetary Sciences Ecology Geography, Planning and Development journal-article 1970 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400060381 2024-02-08T08:37:52Z The Government of Canada began supplying housing for some of its Eskimo people in the Northwest Territories in 1956. At this date the majority of Eskimos still followed their traditional nomadic way of life and lived in igloos or snow houses during winter, and in skin or canvas tents during summer. Since 1956, the tendency of Eskimo families to settle in the vicinity of trading posts, church missions, and newly established federal schools has increased, and the problem of providing permanent accommodation for them has been aggravated. At first the new townsmen improvised shelters from a combination of tents, packing cases, and scraps of metal, tar paper and lumber. When these inadequate dwellings were used as permanent residences, grave social and public health problems resulted from overcrowding. Article in Journal/Newspaper eskimo* Northwest Territories Polar Record Cambridge University Press Northwest Territories Canada Polar Record 15 94 45 50 |
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The Government of Canada began supplying housing for some of its Eskimo people in the Northwest Territories in 1956. At this date the majority of Eskimos still followed their traditional nomadic way of life and lived in igloos or snow houses during winter, and in skin or canvas tents during summer. Since 1956, the tendency of Eskimo families to settle in the vicinity of trading posts, church missions, and newly established federal schools has increased, and the problem of providing permanent accommodation for them has been aggravated. At first the new townsmen improvised shelters from a combination of tents, packing cases, and scraps of metal, tar paper and lumber. When these inadequate dwellings were used as permanent residences, grave social and public health problems resulted from overcrowding. |
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