Nature's Past Episode 012: Industrialization in Subarctic Environments

• Main Author: Kheraj, Sean
• Format: Audio
• Language: English
• Published: Network in Canadian History and Environment 2010
• Subjects: Nature's past; industrialization; mining; Northwest Territories; Canada; Great Bear Lake; Great Slave Lake; Lake Athabasca; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10315/38937

Between 1920 and 1960, Canada’s northwest subarctic region experienced late-stage rapid industrialization along its large lakes. These included Lake Winnipeg, Lake Athabasca, Great Slave Lake, and Great Bear Lake. Powered by high-energy fossil fuels, the natural resources of the northwest were integ...