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The Arctic Response Company Group (ARCG) is a group of company-sized units of the Canadian Forces and the Canadian Army. In 2007, the Canadian Army was tasked to stand-up and train four Arctic Response Company Groups, in cooperation with the Canada First Defence Strategy .
The term "Arctic" varies in its usage. It can be defined as north of the Arctic Circle (66° 33'N). Alternatively, it can be defined as the region where the average temperature for the warmest month (July) is below 10 °C (50 °F); the northernmost tree line roughly follows the isotherm at the boundary of this region.
The U.S. Arctic Policy Group is a federal interagency working group comprising those agencies with programs and/or involvement in research and monitoring, land and natural resources management, environmental protection, human health, transportation and policy making in the Arctic.
The Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme was established as a working group of the Arctic Council in 1991. [1] Its main function is to advise the governments of the eight Arctic member nations [2] —Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the United States—on environment-related issues such as pollution. [2]
Canadian sovereignty was originally (1870–80) only over island portions that drained into Foxe Basin, Hudson Bay and Hudson Strait. Canadian sovereignty over the islands was established by 1880 when Britain transferred them to Canada. [8] The District of Franklin – established in 1895 – comprised almost all of the archipelago. The ...
Last year, a polar bear emerged from the impenetrable snow squall and killed a woman and her young son in in Wales, Alaska, just below the Arctic Circle. It marked the first fatal polar bear ...
The Arctic policy of Canada has certainly received new life under the current administration's initiatives. But, Canada would have, and has had, an Arctic policy under a variety of administrations. This broader scope can be shown, and should be, as an improvement of this WP article. DonaldRichardSands 08:05, 8 July 2012 (UTC) Specifics
Stefansson, born William Stephenson, was born at Arnes, Manitoba, Canada, in 1879.His parents had emigrated from Iceland to Manitoba two years earlier. After losing two children during a period of devastating flooding, the family moved to Dakota Territory in 1880 and homesteaded a mile southwest of the village of Mountain in Thingvalla Township of Pembina County.