Ken Coates

1956

Ken Coates is a Canadian historian focused on the history of the Canadian North and Aboriginal rights and indigenous claims. His other areas of specialization include Arctic sovereignty; science, technology and society, with an emphasis on Japan; world and comparative history; and post-secondary education. Coates is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Regional Innovation, Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, and Director, International Centre for Northern Governance and Development at the University of Saskatchewan. In 2015, Coates was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. While Coates was dean of arts at the University of Waterloo, he played an integral role in the development of the University of Waterloo Stratford Campus and was a member of the Waterloo Stratford Campus Advisory Board. *Source: Wikipedia* <h2>Contributions to Other Works</h2> - *“A Very Imperfect Means of Education”*: Indian Day Schools in the Yukon Territory, 1890-1955” in Jean Barman, Y. Hebert and D. McCaskill, eds., [Indian Education in Canada, Vol. 1: The Legacy](https://openlibrary.org/books/OL8080471M/) , 132-149 (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1986). - *“More Than a Matter of Blood: The Federal Government, the Churches and the Mixed Blood Populations of the Yukon and the Mackenzie River Valley, 1890-1950”*, in F.L. Barron and J.B. Waldram, [1885 and After: Native Society in Transition](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17943666W/), 132-49. (Regina: Canadian Plains Research Cent

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