Chapter 2: Riches in the Wilderness

  • Danita Catherine Burke
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Abstract

This chapter delves into the economic frontier mentality that underpins the second predominant way in which Canadian society frames and projects views about the Arctic region. It investigates the history of resource development and extraction in the Canadian North and Arctic and the role this has played within the Canadian public’s imagination of the Arctic region as a frontier region with riches that can be obtained only by those who persevere. It argues that though these economic ideas have many similarities and overlapping historical moments with the romantic ideas, the focus on the Arctic as a frontier to be explored in the pursuit of riches is a key distinguishing factor between them.

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  • Danita Catherine Burke
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  1. 1.University of Southern DenmarkOdenseDenmark

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