Celebrating Bartlett 2009

Captain Bob Bartlett

World-renowned Arctic explorer. Icon of North American history. From his success on the famed 1909 Peary Polar expedition to his countless Far North adventures, Bartlett is one of the true heroes of the 20th century. Celebrating Bartlett 2009 is a program of events and projects to bring Bartlett’s story to new generations. It will shine light on the legacy of the man whose perseverance and strength symbolize the spirit of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Join us for Celebrating Bartlett 2009 and travel back to a time of firsts, a time of discovery – the time of Captain Bob Bartlett.

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Posted by: Elise Chodat, Bibliographic Systems Librarian, INAC, Ottawa

1840 Globe

Globe from 1840 showing Canadian discoveries up for auction
By Randy Boswell , Canwest News ServiceJuly 4, 2009

It was commissioned in 1840 for an Oxford University library, a $75 globe depicting "the present state of the known world" just three years after a young Queen Victoria had taken the throne.

But when the metre-wide, 169-year-old relic is auctioned July 7 in London, it's expected to fetch a whopping $50,000 - largely because of a map-maker's notations along Canada's northern coastline that suggest the globe may be a one-of-a-kind cartographic creation.

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Posted by: Elise Chodat, Bibliographic Systems Librarian, INAC, Ottawa

Canada and the U.K. Team Together on Polar Research

Ottawa, Ontario (February 11, 2009) - The Honourable Chuck Strahl, Canada’s Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians, and Right Honourable Lord Paul Drayson, the United Kingdom’s Minister of State for Science and Innovation, are pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to pursue collaboration on polar research activities.
Canada and the UK have increased interest in scientific understanding of the polar regions. This MOU enables both countries to increase scientific cooperation in all aspects of polar research, including scientific exchanges and the sharing of polar infrastructure and logistical support.

For more information see:

http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/ai/mr/nr/j-a2009/nr000000183-eng.asp

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Pierre Beaudreau
Manager, Public Enquiries Contact Centre
Departmental Library
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada

Canada's Arctic ice shelves break apart, drift away

Wed Sep 3, 1:13 PM

OTTAWA (AFP) - Two ice shelves in Canada's far north have lost massive sections since August while a third ice shelf now is adrift in the Arctic Ocean, said researchers Wednesday who blamed climate change.

The entire 50 square-kilometer (19 square-mile) Markham Ice Shelf off the coast of Ellesmere Island broke away in early August and is now adrift, while two sections of the nearby Serson Ice Shelf detached, reducing its mass by 60 percent or 122 square kilometers (47 square miles).

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Posted by:

Elise Chodat
Bibliographic Systems Librarian
INAC

Announcement: Pipelines in Permafrost and Freezing Ground, 2nd ed.

New Release
Pipelines in Permafrost and Freezing Ground, Engineering Resource Library and Database Indexes
The timely release of the fourteen-volume book set provides engineers and geoscientists working in universities, research institutes, corporations, governments and regulatory bodies with an in-depth examination of the interdependence between cold climate infrastructure and the behaviour of freezing soils and permafrost-affected soils.

The Engineering Resource Library provides the user with additional insights into intricate concepts such as
• Soil strain and soil creep
• Hydrological and micromorphological properties
• Frost heave and frost bulb growth
• Thaw consolidation and pipeline relaxation
• Pressure in freezing soils and permafrost affected soils
• Bending stresses in buried pipelines
• Uplift resistance of pipelines in permafrost

The Library may be equipped with a suite of program modules and databases.

For further informationplease contact Dr. White - by email white@permafrost.ca or by phone at 613-746-4422.

Permafrost Environmental Consulting Inc.
27 Lindenlea Road, Suite 103, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1M 1A9

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Elise Chodat
Bibliographic Systems Librarian
INAC