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Geographer Jack Ives moved to Canada in 1954, and soon after he played an instrumental role in the establishment of the McGill Sub-Arctic Research Laboratory in central Labrador-Ungava. This fascinating account of his fifty-plus years living and working in the arctic is simultaneously a light-hearte...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ives, Jack D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, ©2010.
Colección:Alaska Digital Library.
Temas:
Ives, Jack D. > Travel > Newfoundland and Labrador > Labrador.
Ives, Jack D. > Travel > Québec (Province) > Nord-du-Québec.
Ives, Jack D.
McGill Sub-arctic Research Laboratory > History.
McGill Sub-arctic Research Laboratory.
1900-1999
Earth sciences > Research > Newfoundland and Labrador > Labrador > History > 20th century.
Earth sciences > Research > Québec (Province) > Nord-du-Québec > History > 20th century.
Graduate students > Newfoundland and Labrador > Labrador > Biography.
Wilderness areas > Newfoundland and Labrador > Labrador > History > 20th century.
Wilderness areas > Québec (Province) > Nord-du-Québec > History > 20th century.
Natural history > Newfoundland and Labrador > Labrador.
Natural history > Québec (Province) > Nord-du-Québec.
Sciences de la terre > Recherche > Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador > Labrador > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Sciences de la terre > Recherche > Québec (Province) > Nord-du-Québec > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Réserves de la vie sauvage > Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador > Labrador > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Réserves de la vie sauvage > Québec (Province) > Nord-du-Québec > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Sciences naturelles > Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador > Labrador.
Sciences naturelles > Québec (Province) > Nord-du-Québec.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > General.
Earth sciences > Research.
Graduate students.
Natural history.
Travel.
Wilderness areas.
Newfoundland and Labrador > Labrador.
Québec > Nord-du-Québec.
Biographies.
History.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue
  • My first summer at the lab
  • History of Labrador-Ungava
  • Founding of the lab
  • Knob Lake and the lab : summer 1955
  • Astray Lake : our first canoe trip
  • Summing up : first summer
  • The Torngat Mountains : 1956/57
  • Into the wilderness
  • Results: Summer 1956
  • Winter 1956/57 : Ottawa
  • Torngat Mountains, 1957
  • The McGill Sub-Arctic Research Lab : operations, 1957-1960
  • Indian House Lake, 1958
  • Helluva Lake, 1958
  • Fall 1958 : an appraisal
  • The lab in 1958/59
  • The lab in 1959/60
  • Death on the Koroksoak
  • Transition : 1960-66
  • The quest for knowledge
  • Staffing
  • Research results: 1954-64
  • Wider impacts
  • Short biographies
  • Appendices.

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