Arctic Revolution: Social Change in the Northwest Territories, 1935-1994
Arctic Revolution: Social Change in the Northwest Territories, 1935-1994 by John David Hamilton
English | Sep 1, 1994 | ISBN: 1550022067 | 304 Pages | PDF | 17 MB
English | Sep 1, 1994 | ISBN: 1550022067 | 304 Pages | PDF | 17 MB
I am a journalist who has been going into the Northwest Territories for half a century. From the very first, the range of things I reported was very wide - from the first stumbling experiments in extracting oil from sand along the Athabaska River to the building of the Alaska Highway and the first hard, all-weather airports. What I mainly reported was the reaction of people to the tremendous changes around them. I watched a canoe carrying two Indians paddling in a leisurely way across the Slave River at Fort Smith while a Norseman aircraft on floats took off past them. I saw the way the people of Edmonton reacted to the American servicemen flooding in from the south in 1942 - and the pleasure Yellowknifers got from the first highway linking them with Edmonton in 1961.1 flew in bush planes and helicopters, filmed bull moose plunging through mountain snowdrifts and barges floating down the Mackenzie loaded with tightly canvassed oil drilling rigs. I was present (an exciting moment) when the five Indian nations of the NWT held their first successful Grand Assembly of Chiefs and Elders in Fort Rae.