Towards Comprehensive Conservation of Environmentally Significant Areas in the Northwest Territories of Canada

1982 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 305-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry Fenge
Keyword(s):  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Renewable Resources ◽  
Conservation Policy ◽  
Northern Canada ◽  
Planning Policy ◽  
Landuse Planning ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
Environmentally Significant Areas ◽  
Hydrocarbon Development

A wide legislative base is available to conserve Environmentally Significant Areas in the vast Northwest Territories of Canada. However, existing conservation reserves have been designated in an ‘incremental’ fashion, without reference to a guiding plan. Intensive industrialization through hydrocarbon development and increased harvesting of renewable resources are threats to the integrity of many ESAs.An anticipatory and comprehensive policy to conserve Environmentally Significant Areas (ESAs) in advance of industrialization is required, but developing such a policy will be difficult, owing to the complex political and jurisdictional ‘environments’ in northern Canada. Despite these problems, the recently announced Northern Landuse Planning Policy could be a vehicle for the implementation of a comprehensive conservation policy for ESAs, if only the institutional structures and processes that will accompany this policy are adequately designed.

Progress of mineral development in northern Canada

Polar Record ◽  
1965 ◽  
Vol 12 (81) ◽  
pp. 683-702
Author(s):  
Amil Dubnie ◽  
W. Keith Buck
Keyword(s):  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Direct Effect ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Northern Canada ◽  
The North ◽  
Mineral Development ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Small Parts

For the purpose of this paper, northern Canada comprises all the territory north of lat 60° N. Included in this area of approximately 1500000 square miles are all of Yukon and Northwest Territories and small parts of Quebec and Labrador. Although the area is clearly defined by latitude, the subject matter of this paper also takes into account those developments farther south which have a direct effect upon the north.

NOTES ON ORTHOPTEROID INSECTS FROM YUKON AND NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA

1983 ◽  
Vol 115 (5) ◽  
pp. 567-568
Author(s):  
V. R. Vickery
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Northern Canada ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
Orthopteroid Insects ◽  
Research Institute

Some time ago I published data on orthopteroid insects from northern Canada and Alaska (Vickery 1967, 1969). Two species and one subspecies were described as new. Two of these taxa occur only in the Yukon and Northwest Territories.Since that time additional information has become available. During 1982 two lots of northern orthopteroid insects were received for identification. These were sent from the Spencer Museum, University of British Columbia and from Biosystematics Research Institute, Canada Agriculture, Ottawa. These are abbreviated in the following list as UBC and CNC, respectively. The UBC specimens were collected by S. G. Cannings, R. J. Cannings, C. S. Guppy, B. Gill, and G. G. E. Scudder mainly in 1980 and 1981. The CNC specimens were collected in 1981 by C. D. Dondale.

Oil and gas exploration in northern Canada

Polar Record ◽  
1961 ◽  
Vol 10 (67) ◽  
pp. 359-364
Author(s):  
A. T. Davidson
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Land Area ◽  
Northern Canada ◽  
Oil And Gas Exploration ◽  
The World ◽  
First Time

About 80 million acres on the mainland of the Northwest Territories and Yukon, and over 40 million acres on the Arctic islands, are under oil and gas exploration permit. Exploration permits were issued in the Arctic islands for the first time in June 1960, following promulgation in April of new Canada Oil and Gas Regulations for federal government lands. The issue of these permits extended the northern oil and gas search from the Alberta and British Columbia borders, in lat. 60° N., northward to the Arctic islands; in terms of land area this is one of the most widespread oil and gas searches in the world. The Arctic islands exploration also holds particular interest since it is the farthest north oil and gas exploration ever carried out.

Conservation of Polar Bear Pass, Bathurst Island, and the Emerging Comprehensive Conservation Policy for Northern Canada

1985 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry Fenge
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Polar Bear ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Conservation Policy ◽  
Natural Areas ◽  
Northern Canada ◽  
Land Use Allocation ◽  
Government Of Canada

During 1975 to 1984, a particularly divisive debate accompanied proposals to conserve Polar Bear Pass, NWT. Virtually all interests that participated in the debate supported a more comprehensive approach towards conservation of natural areas than had hitherto prevailed, and criticized the ad hoc manner in which conservation proposals were being handled by the Federal Government of Canada.Chastened by the experience with Polar Bear Pass, and suffering land-use allocation problems in many locations, the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development responded with a Northern Land-use Planning Policy (Diand, 1981a, 1981b), and is now developing a comprehensive conservation policy.Future conservation reserves in northern Canada are likely to be established as a result of regional land-use planning. It is important, however, that conservation of natural areas in both Territories support northern political development and devolution of resource management authority to northern governments, and settlement of landclaims made by native peoples.

A REVIEW OF THE GENUS PARABARROVIA GIBSON (LEPIDOPTERA: NOCTUIDAE) WITH DESCRIPTION OF THE IMMATURE STAGES AND A NEW SPECIES

1988 ◽  
Vol 120 (6) ◽  
pp. 507-523
Author(s):  
J.D. Lafontaine ◽  
V.S. Kononenko
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Immature Stages ◽  
Northern Canada ◽  
Seward Peninsula ◽  
First Time ◽  
Lepidoptera Noctuidae ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Original Type

AbstractThe genus Parabarrovia Gibson, with one included species, P. keelei Gibson, was previously known from the original type material collected in the MacKenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories, in northern Canada. The known range of P. keelei is extended to include other areas in Beringia, namely, Yukon (British Mountains), Alaska (Brooks Range and Seward Peninsula), and the USSR (Wrangel Island). The immature stages are described for the first time. A second species of Parabarrovia, P. ogilviensis Lafontaine, also known only from the Beringian area, is described from the Ogilvie Mountains, Yukon, Canada. The position of Parabarrovia within the Noctuidae is reviewed and the genus is tentatively retained within the subfamily Noctuinae. Adults, including genital characters, and the immature stages are described and illustrated for both species.

Recent and future mineral developments in northern Canada. By Oil and Mineral Division, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Ottawa

Polar Record ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 15 (95) ◽  
pp. 151-166 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Sedimentary Basins ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Yukon Territory ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Mountain Area ◽  
Southern Boundary ◽  
Northern Canada

Northern Canada consists of two political subdivisions. Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories. Some 3.8 million km2 of land and the large continental shelf lie north of lat 60°N, which is the southern boundary of the two territories. The land area comprises 40 per cent of the whole of Canada. Distances are great, topography varies from flat plains and muskeg to high mountains, and variations in temperature are extreme. Nevertheless, despite these difficulties, the north is a land of great change and rapid development, particularly in the field of mineral exploitation. It was once considered that these territories were destined to remain a producer of precious metals only—commodities of high unit value. The turning point in mining developments came in November 1964, when the first shipment of ore from the Pine Point lead-zinc deposits marked the start of the tremendous and continuing surge forward in mining development. The oil and gas industry has also shown a keen interest in the potential of northern Canada in recent years and the sedimentary basins are all but covered with oil and gas exploration permits. A significant gas strike has been made in the Arctic archipelago and, far away in the south-west corner of the Northwest Territories, a major gas pool is being developed in the Pointed Mountain area.

Chronological list of expeditions and histrical events in northern Canda. IX. 1881–96

Polar Record ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 16 (103) ◽  
pp. 559-577
Author(s):  
Alan Cooke ◽  
Clive Holland
Keyword(s):  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Practical Interest ◽  
Gold Rush ◽  
Yukon Territory ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Hudson Bay ◽  
Northern Canada ◽  
The North ◽  
Short Period ◽  
The Government

During this short period began what may be termed the re-exploration of northern Canada, a scientific examination of lands that had been roughly charted by expeditions of the previous hundred years, but that were otherwise little known except to fur traders, a few missionaries, and the occasional traveller. Only now did the newly confederated Dominion of Canada begin to take a practical interest in its vast northern expansions. The government sent three scientific expeditions to Hudson Strait and Hudson Bay, and the Geological Survey of Canada began to direct its attention towards the north. One of its officers, A. P. Low, explored the length and breadth of the Quebec-Labrador peninsula virtually single-handed and, as if anticipating the Klondike gold rush, towards which the work of many prospectors in Yukon Territory was steadily leading, Dawson, McConnell and Ogilvie published detailed accounts of routes and conditions in the Northwest Territories and Yukon Territory, information that proved invaluable to both government and individuals when the rush was on.

Housing programmes for Eskimos in Northern Canada

Polar Record ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 15 (94) ◽  
pp. 45-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. B. Yates
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Northern Canada ◽  
Trading Posts ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Of Canada

The Government of Canada began supplying housing for some of its Eskimo people in the Northwest Territories in 1956. At this date the majority of Eskimos still followed their traditional nomadic way of life and lived in igloos or snow houses during winter, and in skin or canvas tents during summer. Since 1956, the tendency of Eskimo families to settle in the vicinity of trading posts, church missions, and newly established federal schools has increased, and the problem of providing permanent accommodation for them has been aggravated. At first the new townsmen improvised shelters from a combination of tents, packing cases, and scraps of metal, tar paper and lumber. When these inadequate dwellings were used as permanent residences, grave social and public health problems resulted from overcrowding.

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