Northern vision : New perspectives on the north in Canadian history By Kerry Abel and ken s . Coates Review by Kerry Abel is a professor at Carlton University in Ottawa , in Canada .She is currently finishing up with a study about the development of the community identity in Ontario , in the north east . She has other publications which include 1-Glimpses of Dene history and 2-Drum songs Kenneth s . Coates was born in a place called Banff in Alberta on the 30th of October in 1956 . He received his Bachelor of Arts (B .A ) degree from university of British Columbia . He also acquired a master of arts (M .A ) from university of Matoba and later a PhD from the University of British Columbia . He has lectured at Brandon University in Manitoba , the University of Victoria and also at the University of Waikato in New Zealand . At the University of New Brunswick At Saint John , he was the professor of history and also the dean of arts from the year 1997 . He later took the post of being the dean of arts and sciences on 1st January the year 2000 at the University of Saskatchewan . He had also been , at the University of Northern British Columbia , the founding vice president Academic . Coates has also served as founding editor of Northern Review , a multi-disciplinary journal about the north , and he has research interests in Japanese studies , world and comparative history , information technology , Arctic studies and institutional change in universities . One of Canada ‘s most prolific historians , Ken Coates briefly served as provost and dean of academics at Sea to Sky University in Squamish in 2004 . He has been very much concerned in the Canadian history .Born and having grown in the north , Ken s .Coates has fast hand information on the challenges facing the Canadian people . He has gone through the challenges of the north with other people on the north and hence this gives him the ability to give credible information on the north . His other publications include :i ) Best left as Indians ii ) Canada ‘s colonies iii ) The sinking of the princes Sophia which he has authored together with W .R Morrison and iv ) The Alaska Highway in World War II People who don ‘t live in the north don ‘t value it as a place for people to stay . This is the how the authors of this book feel . It ‘s agreeable that the government only considers the north to be important since it has a vast supply of resources which are not on the other parts of the Canadian regions . As a result , the issues that affect people and their environment are not as well addressed as those that affect the resources that the government values . The disturbing factor is the fact that these resources are used to develop the southern part of Canada . The indigenous people in Canada in the past were viewed as not contributing anything to their history . This however has been met by resistance and historians…