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This pathbreaking book offers some nononsense truths about northern development.
For more than 300 years, the true Canadian north (north of 60th parallel) was ruled either as a private fiefdom of the Hudson's Bay Company or as a far-off colony of Ottawa. The gold rush of 1898 changed that for the Yukon, but it wasn't until 1935 that the Northwest Territories…
This pathbreaking book offers some nononsense truths about northern development.
Winnipeg was Canada's first important city in the west and was the supply point for other prairie cities like Regina, Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmonton, and even far-off Vancouver. It exploded from a village of 2,700 people in 1877 to a fully modern metropolis of 100,000 in just thir…