Welcome
This is a guide to online resources from federal, provincial/territorial and international sources relating to Canada's northern lands and people. For other sources of government statistics use the Government Statistics guide.
For specific non-governmental resources see the Northern Studies subject guide.
Books
Recommended Books:
Canada's relationship with Inuit: a history of policy and program development. (CA1 IA 2008.C16 .ENG)
Databases
Key Databases:
Data & Statistics
Data:
- Data Centre surveys relating to Aboriginal peoples (See also the Data Centre's full list of surveys)
Statistics:
- Statistics Canada
- Aboriginal Peoples (see also the Census guide for a more detailed breakdown of statistics)
- 2001 Census Aboriginal Population Profiles
- Northwest Territories Bureau of Statistics
- Nunavut Bureau of Statistics
- Yukon Bureau of Statistics
Government Information
Canada - Federal:
- Aboriginal Canada portal
- Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency
- Canadian Polar Commission
- Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
- Environment Canada Canadian Ice Service
- Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
- James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement
- Library of Parliament Canadian Arctic sovereignty prepared by Matthew Carnaghan and Allison Goody (26 January 2006)
- National Defence Canada Command - the North
- Natural Resources Canada
Canada - Provincial:
Northern Territories
- Northwest Territories Government portal
- Nunavut Government portal
- Yukon Government portal
- Developing a new framework for sovereignty and security in the North (Discussion paper by the Governments of the Yukon, NWT, and Nunavut)
Provinces with northern territories
- Alberta Northern Alberta Development Council
- British Columbia Interior and Northern Communities
- Saskatchewan Northern Affairs
- Manitoba Aboriginal and Northern Affairs
- Ontario Northern Development
- Quebec Municipal governments north of 55th parallel and Portail Québec: Nord-du-Québec
- Newfoundland and Labrador Dept. of Labrador and Aboriginal Affairs
Foreign:
Great Britain. Parliament
- Arctic Blue Books Online (via University of Manitoba) This is a searchable version of Andrew Taylor's unique index to the 19th Century British Parliamentary Papers concerned with the Canadian Arctic. Thanks to a project funded by the Winnipeg Foundation and completed in March 2003 by Julianna Trivers, the Arctic Blue Books have been digitized, so that the index now includes links to each page on which an index term appears.
International:
- Arctic Council (members are Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, the Russian Federation, Sweden, and the United States of America)
- Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC)
- Inuit Circumpolar Council
- International Polar Year
- List of international organizations with Arctic research interests (via Canadian Polar Commission)
Maps & GIS
Maps:
- Atlas of Canada
- North Circumpolar Region Map
- Bathymetric and orographic maps of the north shows the depths (bathymetry) of the waters in and around Northern Canada, together with the relief (orography) of the land as it was known in 1957.
- Environment Canada Annual Arctic Ice Atlas
- Natural Resources Canada
- International Polar Year map
- Land claim settlement maps
- National Canada Lands map (various sizes for downloading)
- Spatial and historical evolution of Iqaluit showing the development of Iqaluit from 1948 to 2000, accompanied by three-dimensional animations and photographs
- Arctic geobotanical atlas (maps and includes GIS data)
- UNEP Arctic Environmental Atlas
- Nunavut Planning Commission State of Knowledge in Maps project
Websites
Selected non-governmental resources for information about northern policy issues:
First Nations Organizations:
- Grand Council of the Crees
- Assembly of First Nations
- Congress of Aboriginal Peoples
- Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami
- Métis National Council
- Native Women's Association of Canada
News Sources:
- CBC North
- NWT News online
- Nunatisiaq News
- Nunavut online
- Nunavut.com - informatin gateway to Nunavut
- Yellowknifer online