"For several weeks a year, over three decades, Dr John Burgess worked as a consulting cardiologist in Canada's North, a primary witness to rapidly changing disease patterns among the Inuit as a Western lifestyle became more prevalent. His services to the Inuit, as well as his te…
"Dr John Burgess was awarded the Order of Canada for his services to the Inuit and his teaching and research at McGill University. In Doctor to the North he chronicles his remarkable career, from the early influence of his physician father, to his medical training at McGill, in …
The author of The Last Ridge journeys to the Canadian Arctic to describe the murders of two Catholic priests during their 1913 mission to the Eskimos of the region, their cannibalization by Inuit hunters, the long and difficult quest to find the killers, and the two trials that …
Story of two Catholic missionaries killed and cannibalized by Inuit hunters in 1913, and the catastrophic fallout when the hunters were brought to trial.
The author of The Last Ridge journeys to the Canadian Arctic to describe the murders of two Catholic priests during their 1913 mission to the Eskimos of the region, their cannibalization by Inuit hunters, the long and difficult quest to find the killers, and the two trials that …
"A compilation of the traditional knowledge of Inuit elders guided by Inuit from across Nunavut, Uqalurait consists of thousands of quotations organized thematically to cover all aspects of traditional life. The book describes the seasonal rounds of four different cultural group…