Dangerous Passage: Sovereignty in the Arctic

Dangerous Passage

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Dangerous Passage ISSUES IN THE ARCTIC

Gerard Kenney

NATURAL HERITAGE BOOKS TORONTO

Copyright © 2006 Gerard Kenney All rights reserved. No portion of this book, with the exception of brief extracts for the purpose of literary or scholarly review, may be reproduced in any form without the permission of the publisher. Published by Natural Heritage / Natural History Inc. P.O. Box 95, Station O, Toronto, Ontario M4A 2M8 www.naturalheritagebooks.com Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Kenney, Gerard I., 1931Dangerous passage : issues in the Arctic / Gerard Kenney. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-897045-13-1 I. Northwest Passage. 2. Northwest Passage—Discovery and exploration. 3. Territory, National—Canada, Northern. 4. Environmental policy—Northwest Passage. I. Title. FC3963.K448 2006

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Front cover: Gj0a Sailing the Northwest Passage, Lauritz Haaland, artist, 1906. Courtesy of the Fram Museum, Oslo, Norway. Back cover: The Louis St. Laurent, Canada's largest icebreaker. Courtesy of the Canadian Coast Guard. Cover and text design by Sari Naworynski Edited by Jane Gibson Printed and bound in Canada by Hignell Book Printing of Winnipeg

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Natural Heritage / Natural History Inc. acknowledges the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council for our publishing program. We acknowledge the support of the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Media Development Corporation's Ontario Book Initiative. We also acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP) and the Association for the Export of Canadian Books.

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