The Hudson Bay lowland : a geographical study.

Note:There are few areas in Canada which have not, at one time or another during the past few decades, been drawn to the attention or the public by the movement into them of people and industry as the result of some local characteristic. At the turn of the century it was the wheat fields of the West and the gold discoveries of northern British Columbia and the Yukon. In recent years it has been the iron ore deposits of northern Quebec, the development of extensive mineral finds in the Great Slave Lake area and the valuable oil discoveries of the Prairie regions. Through the medium of the newspaper, motion picture and radio, the average Canadian citizen today has a reasonable geographic knowledge of much of the country and the associated cultural development. […] During the summers of 1947, 1949 and 1950 the writer visited much of the Hud8on Bay Lowland as a field man with the Geodetic Survey) of Canada. This provided an opportunity' to study and evaluate at first hand many of the region's problems. Further research was conducted at the Photo Library, Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, and the Public Archives, Ottawa, while considerable source material was provided b7 Federal and Provincial agencies such as the Indian Affairs Branch and Canadian Wildlife Service, Ottawa, and the Department of Lands and Forests, and Department of Mines, Toronto