Government in the Canadian North

Abstract

The Learned Societies of Canada, including the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Political Science Association, come together each year to hold their separate annual sessions. This affords an excellent opportunity for intersociety communication, of both personal and professional value to members, and a wider consideration of current problems than would otherwise be possible. It was therefore of particular interest to the Arctic Institute that, at the suggestion of a senior member of the Institute staff, the Canadian Political Science Association included the subject "Government in the North" on its agenda for the 1966 meetings which were held at the University of Sherbrooke in the Province of Quebec. The main speakers at the two-hour session were Dr. Morris Zaslow of the Department of History, University of Western Ontario, and Dr. Trevor Lloyd, Geography Department, McGill University. ...