Invisible Indigenous Peoples and ALCAN’s Hinterland Hydroelectric Development in Northwestern Canada
The Aluminum Company of Canada, ALCAN, brought hydroelectric development to hinterland areas of the nation in the second quarter of the 20th century. Massive dam projects and their industrial company towns were pushed into regions of Quebec and British Columbia that Provincial and Federal government...
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2025
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| Acesso em linha: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Resumo: | The Aluminum Company of Canada, ALCAN, brought hydroelectric development to
hinterland areas of the nation in the second quarter of the 20th century. Massive dam
projects and their industrial company towns were pushed into regions of Quebec and
British Columbia that Provincial and Federal governments agreed would be ideal places
to develop primary industry. Sweeping water concessions by governments favoured
ALCAN’s diversion and flooding of river systems. This activity seemingly made invisible
any Indigenous presence on traditional lands, all in the name of industrial development
and settler expansion. These once-celebrated sites of economic progress came under
closer environmental and social scrutiny by the close of the 20th century, rendering
Indigenous people visible against a backdrop of ambitions to expand hydroelectric
capacity. Rather than a move to the “Global South”, ALCAN’s activities represent
industrial migration to the “Global North”. |
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