When the whalers were up North : Inuit memories from the Eastern Arctic /

When the whalers were up North : Inuit memories from the Eastern Arctic / Dorothy Harley Eber.

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Documents stories called from oral memories of remaining Eskimo members and their descendants, acquainted with whalers who first appeared in Baffin Island, Cumberland Sound and Hudson Bay. Illustrated with drawings, photographs and artwork.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Eber, Dorothy
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Kingston, Ont. : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1989.
Series:McGill-Queen's native and northern series.
Subjects:
Whaling > Canada, Northern > History.
Inuit > Hunting > Canada > History.
Inuit > Canada > History.
Inuit.
Inuit > Hunting.
Whaling.
Canada, Northern > History.
Canada.
Northern Canada.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PROLOGUE: THE ARRIVAL OF THE WHALERS
  • 1 IN CUMBERLAND SOUND
  • 2 IN HUDSON BAY AND THE STRAIT
  • 3 SHAMANS AND WHALERS
  • 4 THE CASE OF THE MISSING WHALES
  • 5 SPICER'S HARBOUR
  • 6 THE SIIKATSI AND THE WRECK OF THE Polar Star
  • 7 DEATH OF THE LAST TUNIIT
  • 8 THE Active
  • 9 WINTERING
  • 10 PERSONALITIES OF THE BAY
  • 11 THE LAST VESSEL AT MARBLE ISLAND
  • 12 THE WRECK OF THE Seduisante
  • 13 THE Active's LAST VOYAGE, 1912â€?13
  • 14 THE LAST WHALES
  • 15 FINAL CURTAIN
  • A NOTE ON THE TEXT.
  • A note on the illustrationsinformants and interpreters
  • notes
  • bibliography
  • index
  • a
  • b
  • c
  • d
  • e
  • f
  • g
  • h
  • i
  • j
  • k
  • l
  • m
  • n
  • o
  • p
  • q
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  • w.

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