Subarctic Corridors in Northern Quebec: Is the Canadian Northern Corridor Concept Aligned with Quebec’s Historical Development?
Proposals for infrastructure development in Canada’s North are gaining political traction, including a corridor connecting the northern regions of each of the country’s provinces. Quebec is Canada’s largest, northernmost province and would be pivotal in the construction of the corridor. Examining th...
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ftunivcalgaryojs:oai:journalhosting.ucalgary.ca:article/74657 2023-05-15T14:19:02+02:00 Subarctic Corridors in Northern Quebec: Is the Canadian Northern Corridor Concept Aligned with Quebec’s Historical Development? Stringer, Thomas Joanis, Marcelin 2022-03-14 application/pdf https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/74657 eng eng The Arctic Institute of North America https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/74657/55676 https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/74657 Copyright (c) 2022 ARCTIC http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC-BY ARCTIC; Vol. 75 No. 1 (2022): March: 1-148; 20-37 1923-1245 0004-0843 economic corridor infrastructure transportation development nordicity Northern Corridor concept Subarctic northern Quebec Canadian federalism corridor économique transport développement nordicité Concept de corridor nordique subarctique Nord du Québec fédéralisme canadien info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article 2022 ftunivcalgaryojs 2022-12-18T18:33:37Z Proposals for infrastructure development in Canada’s North are gaining political traction, including a corridor connecting the northern regions of each of the country’s provinces. Quebec is Canada’s largest, northernmost province and would be pivotal in the construction of the corridor. Examining the historical phases of Quebec’s northern development is crucial in assessing the challenges ahead. This paper groups Quebec’s infrastructure developments into three main phases, synthesizes each phase, and critically compares them to the proposed Northern Corridor concept (NCC). No research has yet examined the NCC’s complementarity with Quebec’s history of northern infrastructure development. While previous phases could be categorized as intraprovincial penetration corridors linking northern to southern Quebec, the NCC aims to develop an interprovincial economic corridor for landlocked provinces to be able to gain better sea access. Obstacles arising from the conciliation of past developments with the NCC include the unfitness of using existing infrastructures in Quebec for a Pan-Canadian corridor and differing development trajectories at the provincial and federal levels. Three route options for the NCC in Quebec are presented in this study. More generally, this paper outlines difficulties specific to subarctic remote corridor development. Des propositions de projets d’infrastructure dans le Nord canadien gagnent du terrain parmi la classe politique, notamment celle d’un corridor reliant les régions nordiques de chacune des provinces du pays. Le Québec est la province la plus septentrionale et la plus vaste du Canada, ce qui la rend indispensable à la réalisation d’un tel corridor. L’étude des phases historiques de développement du nord du Québec est nécessaire afin d’évaluer les défis qu’engendra un projet de corridor nordique de ce genre. Cet article regroupe tous les développements en infrastructure du Québec nordique en trois grandes phases, les synthétise et les compare de façon critique au Concept de ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Subarctic subarctique* University of Calgary Journal Hosting Canada The Corridor ENVELOPE(78.139,78.139,-68.582,-68.582) |
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Proposals for infrastructure development in Canada’s North are gaining political traction, including a corridor connecting the northern regions of each of the country’s provinces. Quebec is Canada’s largest, northernmost province and would be pivotal in the construction of the corridor. Examining the historical phases of Quebec’s northern development is crucial in assessing the challenges ahead. This paper groups Quebec’s infrastructure developments into three main phases, synthesizes each phase, and critically compares them to the proposed Northern Corridor concept (NCC). No research has yet examined the NCC’s complementarity with Quebec’s history of northern infrastructure development. While previous phases could be categorized as intraprovincial penetration corridors linking northern to southern Quebec, the NCC aims to develop an interprovincial economic corridor for landlocked provinces to be able to gain better sea access. Obstacles arising from the conciliation of past developments with the NCC include the unfitness of using existing infrastructures in Quebec for a Pan-Canadian corridor and differing development trajectories at the provincial and federal levels. Three route options for the NCC in Quebec are presented in this study. More generally, this paper outlines difficulties specific to subarctic remote corridor development. Des propositions de projets d’infrastructure dans le Nord canadien gagnent du terrain parmi la classe politique, notamment celle d’un corridor reliant les régions nordiques de chacune des provinces du pays. Le Québec est la province la plus septentrionale et la plus vaste du Canada, ce qui la rend indispensable à la réalisation d’un tel corridor. L’étude des phases historiques de développement du nord du Québec est nécessaire afin d’évaluer les défis qu’engendra un projet de corridor nordique de ce genre. Cet article regroupe tous les développements en infrastructure du Québec nordique en trois grandes phases, les synthétise et les compare de façon critique au Concept de ... |
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Subarctic Corridors in Northern Quebec: Is the Canadian Northern Corridor Concept Aligned with Quebec’s Historical Development? |
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Subarctic Corridors in Northern Quebec: Is the Canadian Northern Corridor Concept Aligned with Quebec’s Historical Development? |
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Subarctic Corridors in Northern Quebec: Is the Canadian Northern Corridor Concept Aligned with Quebec’s Historical Development? |
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subarctic corridors in northern quebec: is the canadian northern corridor concept aligned with quebec’s historical development? |
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