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Article: Changing Environment, Changing Times: Environmental Issues and Political Action in the Canadian North.
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- Environment
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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For many native peoples of the Yukon Territory in northwest Canada, the sight of a bulldozer crashing through the forest toward them served as their introduction to the construction of the Alaska highway and the modern world. [1] Witnessing this was a wrenching way for peoples in the Canadian North to begin the transition from their isolated bush life to a new life in contact with the industrial world of the 1940s. [2] This event characterized the effects of early industrial activity upon the Canadian North, which were often direct, visible impacts, involving habitat damage and loss and decreasing wildlife and fish populations.
Native peoples of the Canadian North ...