80 / ARCTIC PROFILES

• Main Author: Hugh Llewellyn Keenleyside
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.694.5546; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic43-1-80.pdf

Mines and Resources, positions he held until October 1950. His credentials were unusual and his tenure short, but within three and a half years, the former diplomat transformed the somewhat laissez-faire style of northern government into one of active intervention supported by major financial in-vestment. For the most part, historians have ignored Keenleyside’s role as a social and economic reformer, focusing instead on his diplomatic career. Similarly, the degree of policy change occurring in the late 1940s has gone unnoticed, for the most part, owing to arctic security regulations at the height of the Cold War and to the emphasis placed on a rhetorical com-ment by Prime Minister St. Laurent in 1953, when he an-nounced the creation of a “new ” Ministry of Northern Affairs and National Resources to correct what he claimed had been