Making the Arctic Canadian: Imagining the Arctic in Canadian Discourse

• Main Author: Campbell, Jentry Elizabeth
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Hollins Digital Commons 2015
• Subjects: Arctic; Canadian Geographic; Stephen Harper; Geopolitics; Nationalism; True North; Hollins University Undergraduate theses; Other International and Area Studies; Physical and Environmental Geography; Canada; Harper; Northwest Territories; Nunavut; Yukon
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.hollins.edu/ughonors/5; https://digitalcommons.hollins.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1005&context=ughonors

Canada has a long-standing mythos surrounding its identity as a “true” northern country. That imagined North includes the Arctic regions within Canada of Nunavut, the Yukon, and the Northwest Territories. This thesis examines the reification of the Arctic and Canadian North within present-day Canadi...