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Vanished beyond the map : the mystery of lost explorer Hubert Darrell / by Shoalts, Adam,1986-author.;
"Canada's greatest adventurer sets out into the wilderness to solve a mystery more than 100 years old. In November 1910, legendary explorer Hubert Darrell vanished in the uncharted wilderness of the North West Territories. Darrell was surveying and filling in blanks on existing maps in the western Arctic near the Anderson River. Newspapers as far afield as Los Angeles and New York covered his disappearance, but despite clues reported by Dene trappers and Mounted Police inquiries, his fate remains a mystery. While his disappearance sparked headlines, Darrell would soon also vanish, ironically, from the pages of history. Using archival material and his zeal for adventure, Shoalts retraces parts of Darrell's routes and searches for clues to his disappearance in order to bring his story to light for the first time. Part detective story, part biography, and part first-person travel narrative, Vanished Beyond the Map combines expedition with historical research to solve one of exploration history's enduring cold cases ... the mystery of Hubert Darrell."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Darrell, Hubert, approximately 1874-approximately 1910.; Explorers;

Arctic predator : the crimes of Edward Horne against children in Canada's North / by Lippa, Kathleen,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The shocking crimes of teacher Ed Horne wrought lasting damage on Inuit communities in Canada's Arctic. In the 1970s, a young schoolteacher from British Columbia was becoming the darling of the Northwest Territories education department with his dynamic teaching style. He was learning to speak the local language, Inuktitut, something few outsiders did. He also claimed to be Indigenous -- a claim that would later prove to be false. In truth, Edward Horne was a pedophile who sexually abused his male students. From 1971 to 1985 Horne's predations on Inuit boys would shatter life in the communities where he worked -- towns of close-knit families that would suffer the intergenerational trauma created by his abuse. After years of research, journalist Kathleen Lippa examines the devastating impact Horne's crimes had on individuals, families, and entire communities. Her compelling work lifts the veil of silence surrounding the Horne story once and for all"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; True crime stories.; Horne, Edward (Teacher); Child molesters; Child sexual abuse by teachers; Generational trauma; Inuit children;

Child of morning star : embers of an ancient dawn / by Mountain, Antoine,1949-author.;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Mountain, Antoine, 1949-; Artists; Denesuline;

Interior plains / by Corrigan, Kathleen.; Corrigan, Matthew T.;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.Examines the geography and biodiversity of the Prairie Provinces and Northwest Territories of Canada.LSC
Subjects: Human ecology; Human ecology;

Devil's pass / by Brouwer, Sigmund,1959-;
Seventeen-year-old Webb, a street musician from Toronto, faces grizzly bears and a madman when he travels to the Canol Trail in Canada's Far North in order to fulfill a request made in his grandfather's will."010+"--P. [4] of cover.LSC
Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Teenage boys; Street musicians; Wilderness survival; Murder;
© c2012., Orca Book Publishers,

Disappointment River : finding and losing the Northwest Passage / by Castner, Brian,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In 1789, Alexander Mackenzie travelled the 1,125 miles of the immense river in Canada that now bears his name, in search of the fabled Northwest Passage, only to confront impassable pack ice. In 2016, the acclaimed memoirist Brian Castner retraced Mackenzie's route by canoe in a grueling journey--and discovered the Passage he could not find. Disappointment River is a dual historical narrative and travel memoir that at once transports readers back to the heroic age of North American exploration and places them in a still rugged but increasingly fragile Arctic wilderness in the process of profound alteration by the dual forces of energy extraction and climate change. Eleven years before Lewis and Clark, the Scottish explorer Alexander Mackenzie actually crossed the North American continent with a team of voyageurs and Native guides. Before that he was the first to discover a route to the Arctic Ocean from the Great Lakes, along the river he named "Disappointment" because he believed he'd failed in his mission to find a trade route to the riches of the East. In fact he had--he was just two-plus centuries early. In this book, Brian Castner not only retells the story of Mackenzie's epic voyages in vivid prose, he personally retraces his travels in an 1,125-mile canoe voyage down the river that bears his name, battling exhaustion, exposure, mosquitoes, white water rapids and the threat of bears. He transports readers to a world rarely glimpsed in the media, of tar sands, thawing permafrost, remote Native villages and, at the end, a wide open Arctic Ocean that is quickly becoming a far-northern Mississippi of barges and pipelines and oil money."--
Subjects: Castner, Brian; Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1764-1820; Canoes and canoeing;

Arctic Air. [videorecording] / by Beach, Adam,1972-; Hutton, Pascale.; Lobo, Stephen.; McNulty, Kevin,1955-; Moore, Carmen.; Reardon, John,1975-; Aboriginal Peoples Television Network.; CBC Home Video (Firm); Entertainment One (Firm : Canada); Omni Film Productions.;
Director of photography, Bruce Worrall ; composer, Tim McCauley ; edited by Lara Mazur, Rick Martin, Franco Pante.Adam Beach, Pascale Hutton, Kevin McNulty, Stephen Lobo, Carmen Moore, John Reardon.Arctic Air is a one-hour adventure series set in the booming Arctic, about a maverick airline and the unconventional family who runs it. That world is Yellowknife, and the High Arctic that lies beyond. The vast terrain and unforgiving climate mean the stakes are sky-high. This is life without a safety net.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, widescreen (16:9) presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1.
Subjects: Airlines; Family-owned business enterprises; Man-woman relationships; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2014., CBC Home Video : Distributed by Entertainment One,

Arctic Air. [videorecording] / by Beach, Adam,1972-; Hutton, Pascale.; Lobo, Stephen.; McNulty, Kevin,1955-; Moore, Carmen.; Reardon, John,1975-; Aboriginal Peoples Television Network.; CBC Home Video (Firm); Entertainment One (Firm : Canada); Omni Film Productions.;
Disc 1. Wildfire -- Bombs away -- Open season -- Stormy weather -- Old wounds.Disc 2. Dangerous cargo -- There's gold in them thar hills -- Secrets & lies -- Hell hath no fury -- Skeletons in the closet.Disc 3. Blood is thicker than water -- Fool me once -- Ts'inada.Director of photography, Bruce Worrall ; composer, Tim McCauley ; edited by Lara Mazur, Rick Martin, Franco Pante.Adam Beach, Pascale Hutton, Kevin McNulty, Stephen Lobo, Carmen Moore, John Reardon.Arctic Air is a one-hour adventure series set in the booming Arctic, about a maverick airline and the unconventional family who runs it. That world is Yellowknife, and the High Arctic that lies beyond. The vast terrain and unforgiving climate mean the stakes are sky-high. This is life without a safety net.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, widescreen (16:9) presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1.
Subjects: Airlines; Family-owned business enterprises; Man-woman relationships; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2013., CBC Home Video : Distributed by Entertainment One,

Arctic Air. [videorecording] / by Beach, Adam,1972-; Hutton, Pascale.; Lobo, Stephen.; McNulty, Kevin,1955-; Moore, Carmen.; Reardon, John,1975-; Aboriginal Peoples Television Network.; CBC Home Video (Firm); Entertainment One (Firm : Canada); Omni Film Productions.;
Director of photography, Bruce Worrall ; composer, Tim McCauley ; edited by Lara Mazur, Rick Martin, Franco Pante.Adam Beach, Pascale Hutton, Kevin McNulty, Stephen Lobo, Carmen Moore, John Reardon.After living the good life in Vancouver for the past ten years, Bobby Martin returns to his hometown of Yellowknife to seal a lucrative diamond deal on behalf of his venture capital firm. But when he learns that Arctic Air, the airline founded by his late father, is on the brink of bankruptcy, he faces a difficult decision: stay and save the company or retreat back to the big city once again. Bobby will have to work side by side with Mel Ivarson, the crusty co-founder of the airline, and his beautiful and headstrong daughter Krista, but together they will face breath-taking challenges on a daily basis as they fly in the world's most bleak and beautiful and inhospitable environment. This is strictly a starting point, and the airline is just our entree into a wider world.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1.
Subjects: Airlines; Family-owned business enterprises; Man-woman relationships; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2012., Entertainment One,

Proud to be Inuvialuit = Quviahuktunga Inuvialuugama / by Pokiak, James.; Macintosh, Tessa,1952-; Willett, Mindy,1968-;
Subjects: Pokiak, James; Pokiak, James; Traditional ecological knowledge; White whale hunting; Inuvialuit; Inuvialuit;
© c2010., Fifth House,

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