Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 1989. / Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

[No abstract available] / Arts, Faculty of / History, Department of / Graduate

This thesis focuses upon Clyde River Inuit knowledge, concerns, and attitudes to community tourism development and protected area establishment. The findings suggest that a cross-section of residents have a positive attitude toward community tourism development because it may provide local economic benefits. Residents also support the Igalirtuuq Conservation Proposal because it protects the endangered bowhead whale and its critical habitat, while at the same time stimulating tourism development. Clyde Inuit are reluctant to attribute social and environmental costs to these initiatives but are, nevertheless, able to point out some specific negative impacts that such projects might have on their village. Most felt that few problems would materialise as long as residents were intimately involved in all aspects of a controlled and gradual development. The study illustrates the importance of this type of community oriented approach in providing guidelines for tourism and conservation area development policy makers.

This thesis presents the results of a general geological study of a belt of Archean rocks in the Indin Lake district, N.W.T. The summary results of a summer's field work are incorporated with a brief petrographical investigation of different rock types. Intermediate to acidic lava flows and pyroclastic rocks overlain conformably (?) by a succession of clastic sediments are invaded by minor acidic intrusives and a plexus of basic dykes and sills. Isoclinal folds in sediments, broader flexures in volcanics, bedded shear zones, and regional foliation and lineation are all attributed to a single system of powerful tangetial forces that affected all stratiform rocks in the area. Zones of weakness at contacts are imputed, to differential competence between volcanic and sedimentary rocks, and a. theory of folding of rock units of differing competency is applied in modified form to the origin of the Indin "break" - a gold-bearing shear zone close to a major contact. Evidence is presented to suggest that “cross-faults” clean-cut dislocations that transect the regional structural trend - and emplacement of late basic intrusives are quasi-contemporaneous events that progressed over a protracted interval of time and may have been consequent upon a single deformational-pattern. An attempt to explain the propinquity, and thus the possible structural relation, of gold mineralization to cross-faults is embodied in a theory relating the control of mineralization "by channeling of ore-solutions in structures developed during the period of strain accumulation that culminated in cross-faulting. An almost completely reconstituted mineral assemblage is ascribed to a moderate grade of regional metamorphism consisting of dynamic metamorphism during orogeny and relatively minor effects of superimposed thermal and retrograde metamorphism. Metacrysts of ankeritic carbonate, believed to be hydro-thermal, are discussed, and their superficial genetic or structural association with gold mineralization is offered as a possible guide to future ore discovery. Rather detailed descriptions are submitted of ankeritic carbonate, an unusual "hornblende" occurring in amphibolite, and a green mica, tentatively called phengitic-muscovite, from a carbonate zone. / Science, Faculty of / Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Department of / Graduate

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In Canada's Northwest Territories nurses work primarily with and in First Nations' isolated and semi-isolated communities and are expected to practice at an advanced level. Collaboration is one competency standard identified by the Canadian Nurses Association as necessary for advanced practice. The notion that collaboration competency can be understood as a standard by which advanced nursing practice is defined becomes problematic when culture, language, and unique situations surrounding health in northern communities impact on nursing practice. This research explores and describes how northern nurses experience, understand, and engage in collaboration in their practice and endeavors to bring to light the contextual influences that impact collaborative northern nursing practice.

The Yellowknife greenstone belt has produced approximately 14 million ounces of gold, 13 of which came from the well explored southern half of the belt. The northern half of the belt, where the Discovery Property (1 million ounce past producer) is located, is not as well explored, but geologically very similar to the gold producing southern half. Gold on the Discovery Property, Northwest Territories, has been historically mined from a quartz vein formed adjacent to Archean metabasaltic bodies enclosed in metasedimentary rocks. Some of the metasedimentary rocks are correlated to the Archean Banting Group, based on a U-Pb age of 2.66 Ga on zircon (SHRIMP-RG). The metabasalt is correlated to the Banting Group based on its deposition relationship with the adjacent metasedimentary rocks. The Banting Group is present in the Yellowknife greenstone belt, located near the well-known Con and Giant Mines near Yellowknife, 90 km to the south. The two gold deposits forming the Discovery Property contains almost 2 million ounces in past production and current resources. The historical Discovery Mine was developed in quartz veins hosted in the metasedimentary rocks folded around the northern tip of one of the metabasalt bodies. In contrast, the newly defined Ormsby Zone consists of gold in silicified and sulphidized domains within metamorphosed pillowed and brecciated mafic volcanic rocks, and shares many characteristics with other Archean Orogenic gold deposits. Pyrrhotite ± arsenopyrite is directly correlated with the gold-bearing zones. Gold is also associated with pyrite and retrograde phases of chlorite, sericite and carbonate. Through detailed outcrop mapping and petrography the history of structural and metamorphic events are sequenced and the relative time of gold mineralization placed into the geological framework. Peak-metamorphic mineral assemblages on the property record upper greenschist to amphibolite facies conditions. Rocks on the Discovery Property have undergone at least four foliation-forming, deformational events. Three generations of folding are described, as well as a vertical lineation across the property. Gold mineralization occurred post-ductile fabric forming deformation, post-peak metamorphism, and syn-retrograde metamorphism. Although no visible evidence was observed mapping, metamorphic data present the possibility of a regional scale fault separating two metamorphic domains on the property.

Research was conducted to better understand the food insecurity (FI) experience among women in a small indigenous Canadian Arctic community. A descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted in January-February 2006 with 54 women (20-40 years). Interviews were conducted on food insecurity, lifestyle, health, dietary self-efficacy and traditional food (TF) frequency; anthropometry data were also gathered. FI affected 55% of participating households in the community. Issues of food availability, quality and variety; lack of consumer skills; and lack of TF access were recognized as potential barriers to food security. Women from FI households were more likely to report an inability to access TF (p=0.0171). No associations were found between food security status and dietary self-efficacy or TF frequency of use. Current measures, programs and policies addressing FI need to consider unique barriers facing Indigenous Peoples living in northern Canada, including the barriers that affect access to TF resources.

The Yellowknife greenstone belt has produced approximately 14 million ounces of gold, 13 of which came from the well explored southern half of the belt. The northern half of the belt, where the Discovery Property (1 million ounce past producer) is located, is not as well explored, but geologically very similar to the gold producing southern half. Gold on the Discovery Property, Northwest Territories, has been historically mined from a quartz vein formed adjacent to Archean metabasaltic bodies enclosed in metasedimentary rocks. Some of the metasedimentary rocks are correlated to the Archean Banting Group, based on a U-Pb age of 2.66 Ga on zircon (SHRIMP-RG). The metabasalt is correlated to the Banting Group based on its deposition relationship with the adjacent metasedimentary rocks. The Banting Group is present in the Yellowknife greenstone belt, located near the well-known Con and Giant Mines near Yellowknife, 90 km to the south. The two gold deposits forming the Discovery Property contains almost 2 million ounces in past production and current resources. The historical Discovery Mine was developed in quartz veins hosted in the metasedimentary rocks folded around the northern tip of one of the metabasalt bodies. In contrast, the newly defined Ormsby Zone consists of gold in silicified and sulphidized domains within metamorphosed pillowed and brecciated mafic volcanic rocks, and shares many characteristics with other Archean Orogenic gold deposits. Pyrrhotite ± arsenopyrite is directly correlated with the gold-bearing zones. Gold is also associated with pyrite and retrograde phases of chlorite, sericite and carbonate. Through detailed outcrop mapping and petrography the history of structural and metamorphic events are sequenced and the relative time of gold mineralization placed into the geological framework. Peak-metamorphic mineral assemblages on the property record upper greenschist to amphibolite facies conditions. Rocks on the Discovery Property have undergone at least four foliation-forming, deformational events. Three generations of folding are described, as well as a vertical lineation across the property. Gold mineralization occurred post-ductile fabric forming deformation, post-peak metamorphism, and syn-retrograde metamorphism. Although no visible evidence was observed mapping, metamorphic data present the possibility of a regional scale fault separating two metamorphic domains on the property.

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