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Social Science Regional Studies

Arctic Revolution

Social Change in the Northwest Territories, 1935-1994

by (author) John David Hamilton

Publisher
Dundurn Press
Initial publish date
Sep 1994
Category
Regional Studies, General, Social History
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781459713734
    Publish Date
    Sep 1994
    List Price
    $7.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550022063
    Publish Date
    Sep 1994
    List Price
    $19.99

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Description

This pathbreaking book offers some nononsense truths about northern development.

About the author

John David Hamilton is an award-winning journalist, author, and broadcaster who now lives near Lake Simcoe, north of Toronto. His grandfather was a pioneer cattle dealer who first visited Winnipeg at the start of the railroad boom in 1881. His father was a homesteader on the virgin prairie. He himself was conceived on a bush cattle ranch in Manitoba and spent his early years in remote settlements with his mother who was a frontier school teacher. He started on the Winnipeg Free Press and later was a foreign correspondent in New York, documentary maker for the CBC, and author of the comprehensive social and political history of the Northwest Territories, Arctic Revolution, also published by Dundurn Press.

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