Arctic Survey Part VII. Administration of the Canadian Northland

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science
• Main Author: Lingard, C. C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1946
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; General Environmental Science; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Yukon; Hudson Bay; Canada; Hudson; British Columbia; Archipelago; Arctic Archipelago; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/137331; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0315489000019009

The Canadian Northland embraces both the Yukon and the North West Territories, a total area of 1,516,758 square miles. The Yukon Territory, which forms the extreme north-west portion of the mainland of Canada, extends northward from British Columbia to the Arctic Ocean and eastward from Alaska to the District of Mackenzie. The North West Territories, which have diminished in area time and again during the last seventy-five years, today embrace the vast mainland portion of Canada lying north of the sixtieth parallel of latitude between the Yukon Territory on the west and Hudson Bay on the east, together with the islands in Hudson and James Bays and in the Arctic Archipelago.