GEO 605 : 022513 Coming Off The Land & Land Claims.doc

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEO 605
• Professor: David Atkinson

Document Summary

European contact: from martin frobisher in the 1570"s to the search for the missing franklin expedition in the 1850 - European"s began contact with the inuit: first european contact began with martin frobisher believing he found gold, contact was limited because population was not extensive. Informal trading brought introduction of iron: improves lives of the inuit for hunting, harpoon heads, knifes. 1850s: the north atlantic commercial whaling industry: europeans reliant on whale industry, including oil (for lighting lamps) and bones, whaling is seasonal. Increase in manufactured goods in inuit society that are useful to survival: coffee, sugar, and tobacco; items with longer shelf life. Rcmp: rcmp tell them how to live and what to do, discovery of gold during the gold rush and canadian government concerned about the yukon would be overrun by americans, thus creation of rcmp. In the 1950s everything changed - post wwii created new world and environment in the north.