The Barren Ground Grizzly Bear in Northern Canada

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Harington, C.R., Macpherson, A.H., Kelsall, J.P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1962
• Subjects: Grizzly bears; Animal distribution; Glacial epoch; Nouveau-Québec; Labrador; Canada; Arctic; Beringia
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66634

Discusses distribution of the bears, and takes exception to certain statements of A.W.F. Banfield (No. 56712). His thesis of a recent eastward range extension as a continuation of the species' postglacial dispersal from Beringia is rejected. The range of the species is considered to have changed many times since the end of the Wisconsin glaciation; recent increase of bears in the east is probably a minor range fluctuation. Occurrence of grizzlies in northern Quebec - Labrador is not to be discounted, as Banfield does: several records of bears seen near the eastern end of the range since 1948 are cited.