Seventy-five years of resource administration in northern Canada

Abstract

These words were written by an American senator from California about his experience in the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898. In the Canadian north of the 1890's, government meant public order. The first resident servants of the Dominion Government were an Inspector and twenty men of the North-West Mounted Police who were assigned to the Yukon in 1894 to “represent all the different departments of government in the district” (Canada, Department of Interior 1907, p 15).

Canadian Contradictions: Forty Years of Northern Political Development

“…The U.S. military effort had amajor impact. David Judd has estimated that between 1941 and 1946, the American military population in northern Canada outnumbered Canadian residents three to one (Judd, 1969a).…”

“…Concern for sovereignty provoked some delicate diplomatic maneuvering. It also created interest in establishing a more effective state presence in the North (Armstrong et al, 1978;Judd, 1969a).…”