Lepidoptera collected in the Canadian Arctic during the Tundra Northwest 99 expedition

Jens Rydell; Heikki Roininen; Kenelm Philip; Ali Karhu

doi:10.33338/ef.84117

Lepidoptera collected in the Canadian Arctic during the Tundra Northwest 99 expedition

Entomologica Fennica ◽

10.33338/ef.84117 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 12 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Jens Rydell ◽

Heikki Roininen ◽

Kenelm Philip ◽

Ali Karhu

Keyword(s):

Air Force ◽

Canadian Arctic ◽

Species Range ◽

The Arctic ◽

Arctic Coast ◽

Air Force Base ◽

Somerset Island ◽

North Greenland

During the Swedish-Canadian icebreaker-based expedition to the Nearctic in summer 1999 (July and early August), moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera) were collected during short, helicopter-aided visits to eight sites in the Canadian archipelago, three sites on the Canadian mainland near the arctic coast and also at Thule Air Force Base in north Greenland. Some of the visited sites (notably those on Melville Peninsula, Somerset Island and King William Island) have not previously been investigated with respect to their insect faunas. Several records thus represent species range extensions. They generally corroborate an earlier hypothesis, based on a floristic zonation scheme, which has been used as a framework for understanding the distribution of Arctic butterflies.

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Structural violence and the 1962-1963 tuberculosis epidemic in Eskimo Point, N.W.T.

Études/Inuit/Studies ◽

10.7202/1015983ar ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 36 (2) ◽

pp. 165-185 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Frank James Tester ◽

Paule McNicoll ◽

Quyen Tran

Keyword(s):

Structural Violence ◽

Social Systems ◽

Canadian Arctic ◽

Social Institutions ◽

The Arctic ◽

Hudson Bay ◽

The Social ◽

Psychological Harm ◽

History Of ◽

Arctic Coast

In the winter of 1962-1963, an epidemic of tuberculosis broke out in Eskimo Point, an Inuit community on the west coast of Hudson Bay in the Canadian Arctic. The outbreak was made possible by bad living conditions, among the worst ever documented in the history of the Canadian Arctic. The epidemic reveals the intersection of social attitudes, the economic logic of a postwar Canadian welfare state, and the difficult transition being made by Inuit moving from tents, igloos, and land-based camps to settlements along the Arctic coast. It is a case of “structural violence” where rules, policies, and social institutions operate in ways that cause physical and psychological harm to people lacking the power and/or resources necessary to changing the social systems and conditions in which they live. Both individuals and entire communities are affected. With regard to past—and present—Inuit housing conditions, we invoke the concept of structural violence to stress the importance of identifying and speaking about public health problems as a violation of internationally recognised human rights.

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Balizoma and the new genera Aegrotocatellus and Perirehaedulus: Encrinurid trilobites from the Douro Formation (Siluiran, Ludlow) of the central Canadian Arctic

Journal of Paleontology ◽

10.1017/s0022336000035253 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 69 (4) ◽

pp. 736-752 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Jonathan M. Adrain ◽

Gregory D. Edgecombe

Keyword(s):

Type Species ◽

Canadian Arctic ◽

The Arctic ◽

New Genera ◽

Devon Island ◽

Cape Phillips Formation ◽

Somerset Island ◽

Cornwallis Island

Species of two new genera of Encrinuridae occur in the Ludlow Douro Formation at Goodsir Creek, Cornwallis Island, Gamier Bay, Somerset Island, and Prince Alfred Bay, Devon Island. The encrinurine Aegrotocatellus n. gen. includes four highly autapomorphic species, and is most closely related to Balizoma Holloway, 1980. Separate taxa are recognized at low and high stratigraphic intervals at Goodsir Creek (the type species, Aegrotocatellus jaggeri n. gen. and sp., and Aegrotocatellus n. sp. A, respectively), at Gamier Bay (Aegrotocatellus n. sp. B), and at Prince Alfred Bay (Aegrotocatellus nankerphelgeorum n. gen. and sp.). Perirehaedulus n. gen. is a coronocephaline most closely related to the Chinese upper Llandovery taxon Kailia Chang, 1974. The type species, Perirehaedulus caprus (Thomas in Thomas and Narbonne, 1979) from Goodsir Creek, is distinct from P. richardsi n. gen. and sp. at Garnier Bay. The upper Wenlock–Ludlow range of Balizoma is extended into the Arctic by Balizoma aff. B. variolaris (Brongniart, 1822) from Homerian rocks of the Cape Phillips Formation near Abbott River, Cornwallis Island, and by Balizoma sp., from the late Ludlow Douro Formation at Goodsir Creek.

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