Volume 24-25, 1976-7 - The Arctic Circle - Home

VOL. )Ofi/ I$O. 4 TTTE ARCTIC CIRCI.]IAR84Professor k:rris€&nondllanelin frcm the Centre drEtudes Nordiquesttr nencit D.urpnt frcrn the Departmentof Agricultr:re, went to Anticosti Island in ttre Gulf of St. Lanrrrence,last July. Ttreir primaqg objective was to study tlre local nordicity;and state about the inch:sion in ttre llcrth of ttrat big islard:lilcrdicitlzOne rnay consider tlre northern characteristics of a site accondinga trrcIar index (defined in Ttre ltgqb:aE, 1972) . 200 polar r:nits(cattea \APo) are requiredffided in the lilcrth. Here aretlre \IAPO for sdrp locations at tlre Soutlreastern bonder of theCanadian North.Battle HarborrSt. Ar-rgustin 346 rrNatasLrguan 295 rrMingan285 flAntiqcsti (r,vestern part) 284 rrBeIIe-Isle (water) 254 'tGuIf (Dilcrtlrcastern part) 238 ''Jacques-Cartier Passage L94 rlGulf (southern parb) 187 'r365 \APOThn-r,s , Anticosti should be included in the Canad.ian l{orth,in that part q:alified as thre "Near lrtrorth" or "I-ohter Middle Nortltle.Denegraphic DataA side objective was to consider tkre interest of the religior:^sarchives. We have looked at tlre Registers held by ttre CatJ:olicChr:rch at Port-I'Ienier. We have octracted data for births, deathsand nnrriages for each year frcm 1883 Lo 1977. fn L928, nurnbrof births reachred its peak with 56 individual-s. On Augrust 23, 1903'one may see ttre signahrre of Henri-Enile l4enier, from EYance 7 owrl€rof ttre Island. Ttrese arclrirres are important docunents for tlresocial history of Anticosti. Those vrtro are interested in ttresedata on vital statistics may vrrite to u.s.Ot}rer obseryations harre been rnade on periglacial phenonena, karstnrorpholoqz, eological reserye (projects) and argricultural prospects.Thp hr:ndred color:r slides taken.Professor Fichard Slobod.in (Departrent of Anthropology, Mclt4asterUniversityl writes:I nade a brief trip Norttr this srnmer, for tlre first tine since 1958.I did so at tlre invitation of BilI Inring of the University of Toronto 'director of the lilcrtlrern Yukon Research Progfanne. Iuly position wassoneratrat ancmalous, as I am a cultural anthropologist, and tle N.Y.R.P.is primarily airred at r:nravelling tlre prelristory of Beringia.Assistance and ancillary research is provided by paleontologists,nanrnalogisits , lnlynclogists , etc. , but tlre student of livingpeople has not cqne into tle picture u:til nc'r^/.