Sylvie LeBlanc
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Sylvie LeBlanc is an archaeologist from Carleton University.[1][2]
LeBlanc has studied Inuit and Dorset history in both Newfoundland and Labrador and Nunavut.[3][4][5][6][7][8] LeBlanc has challendged the owner's of the Baffinland Iron Mine, as its railway will parallel a 6 kilometer chain of inuksuk on Baffin Island. [9] She said some of the inuksuit date back 4500 years.[10] The chain runs from Steensby Inlet to 10 km Lake.[11] LeBlanc described the uninterrupted chain of inuksuit as unprecedented in length and historical value.[12]
References
- ↑ "SSHRC Announces Partnership Development Grants for Carleton Researchers" (in English). Exchange magazine. 2012-05-28. http://www.exchangemagazine.com/morningpost/2012/week22/Monday/12052807.htm. Retrieved 2012-11-21. "Sylvie LeBlanc – $199,993 – The Inukshuit Project: Ancient and traditional Inuit navigational systems on Northern Baffin Island"
- ↑ "What's new: 2011 February" (in English). Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre. https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/New_2011. Retrieved 2012-11-21. "Dr. Sylvie Leblanc, Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology and Anthropology joins the GCRC. She will be working on The Northwest Passage and the Construction of Inuit pan-Arctic Identities, led by Dr. Aporta."
- ↑ Sylvie LeBlanc (2010). "Middle Dorset Variability and Regional Cultural Traditions: A Case Study from Newfoundland and Saint-Pierre and Miquelon" (in English). David Brown Book Company. ISBN 9781407307008. http://books.google.ca/books/about/Middle_Dorset_Variability_and_Regional_C.html?id=9D1kcgAACAAJ&redir_esc=y. Retrieved 2012-12-03.
- ↑ Sylvie LeBlanc. "Dildo Island 1997 Field Season" (in English). Provincial Archaeology Office. http://www.tcr.gov.nl.ca/tcr/pao/arch_in_nl/arch_in_nl_1997/leblanc_1997_dildo_is.html. Retrieved 2012-12-03.
- ↑ Sylvie LeBlanc. "Stage 1 Historic Resources Overview Assessment of the Silver Mountain Power Development, Upper Humber River, Newfoundland" (in English). Provincial Archaeology Office. http://www.tcr.gov.nl.ca/tcr/pao/arch_in_nl/arch_in_nl_1997/leblanc_tuck_1997_silver_mountain.html. Retrieved 2012-12-03.
- ↑ Sylvie LeBlanc. "A Stage 1 Historic Resources Overview Assessment of the Proposed Waterline from Rattling Brook Big Pond to Highway 101" (in English). Provincial Archaeology Office. http://www.tcr.gov.nl.ca/tcr/pao/arch_in_nl/arch_in_nl_1997/leblanc_1997_rattling_brook_big_pond.html. Retrieved 2012-12-03.
- ↑ Julie Ross, Douglas Stenton (2011-04-29). "Re: Nunavut Water Board License 2BE-PBP ---/ Pistol Bay Project Mineral Exploration (Dwayne Car, Northquest Ltd.)" (in English). Nunavut Impact Review Board. http://ftp.nirb.ca/01-SCREENINGS/COMPLETED%20SCREENINGS/2011/11EN027-Northquest-Pistol%20Bay/02-DISTRIBUTION/COMMENTS/110620-11EN027-CLEY%20Comments%20on%20Water%20License-IA1E.pdf. Retrieved 2012-12-03.
- ↑ "Paleoeskimo architecture" (in English). Etudes Inuit Studies. 2003-1-2. http://www.erudit.org/revue/etudinuit/2003/v27/n1-2/010793ar.pdf. Retrieved 2012-11-.
- ↑ "Baffinland's proposed railway near inuksuk chain: Archaeologist says it's the longest intact navigational system of its kind ever documented". CBC News. 2012-05-04. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2012/05/04/north-inukshuk-mary-river.html. Retrieved 2012-06-04. "One of the outstanding questions about the impacts of the proposed Mary River Iron Mine near Pond Inlet is what will happen to a chain of ancient inuksuit." mirror
- ↑ Jane George (2011-10-07). "Draft EIS for Nunavut’s Mary River mine sparks stinging technical review" (in English). Cambridge Bay: Nunatsiaq. Archived from the original on 2012-11-21. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nunatsiaqonline.ca%2Fstories%2Farticle%2F65674draft_eis_for_nunavuts_mary_river_mine_sparks_criticism&date=2012-11-21. Retrieved 2012-11-21. "The antiquity of some archeological remains along this navigational system, which goes back more than 4,500 years, indicates that “it has been used by people representing every Arctic culture for millennia.”"
- ↑ "Inuksuit on the railroad" (in English). Isuma TV. 2012-05-10. Archived from the original on 2012-11-21. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.isuma.tv%2Fhi%2Fen%2Fdid-news-alert%2Finuksuit-on-the-railroad&date=2012-11-21. Retrieved 2012-11-21. "The railway will run along a chain of roughly 100 inuksuit that extends for over six kilometres near the mouth of Steensby Inlet."
- ↑ "Baffinland's proposed railway near inukshuk chain" (in English). Yahoo News. 2012-05-05. Archived from the original on 2012-11-21. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fca.news.yahoo.com%2Fbaffinlands-proposed-railway-near-inukshuk-chain-212333564.html&date=2012-11-21. Retrieved 2012-11-21. "LeBlanc said it is the longest intact navigational system of its kind ever documented... LeBlanc registered her concerns with the Nunavut Impact Review Board that rock eruptions and vibrations from blasting activities during railway construction could affect the structures."
