Ferguson, J.D. (1957) A Study of the Effects of the D.E.W. Line Upon the Eskimo of the Western Canadian Arctic, Northern Research Co-ordination Centre (2 volume, unpublished typescript –INAC library rare books E100.E4 F47)
Keywords: Cambridge Bay, D.E.W. Line, employment, Northern Co-ordination and Research Centre, shack housing, tents
Ferguson reported on Inuit employment on D.E.W. Line construction at Cambridge Bay in 1956. Appears to have collected most of his data from conversations with missionaries, traders, and non-Inuit construction workers. Volume 2 contains original photographs, including exterior and interior of tents and cabins. Similar to Toshio Yatsushiro’s contemporaneous report from Frobisher Bay, Ferguson reports that Inuit live in wooden houses in winter and move to tents in summer. Ferguson connects this to traditional shift from
Ferguson also reports that Inuit continue to hunt, that employment allows them to outfit themselves with better hunting equipment, but also to purchase manufactured clothing and household equipment. He reports that men, when asked, said they liked working for the D.E.W. line construction company, but that no one saw it as