The Contents are: Foreword by General Georges Vanier; Introduction by I. Norman Smith; The Land and the People by Trevor Lloyd; The Canadian Eskimo by Diamond Jenness; But Change Confronts the Eskimo by Graham Rowley; The Eskimo Language - Must It Die by Gilles-Raymond Lefebvre; The Animals That Are There by John Tener; Specially the Caribou by A. W. F. Banfield; Birds of the Arctic by L. M. Tuck; And Butterflies and Beetles Too by T. N. Freeman; Plants in the Arctic by A. E. Porsild; Anthropology by V. F. Valentine; World Arctic Archaeology by Elmer Harp Jr; Man Shivers in the Arctic by J. A. Hildes; Arctic Landforms by J. Ross Mackay; Getting It All on the Map by J. E. Lilly; Ice by Fritz Muller; Permafrost by F. F. Legget; Circulation of the Arctic Ocean by M. J. Dunbar and W. B. Bailey; The Nature of Sea Ice by Moira Dunbar; So Ships May Safely Sail by Norman G. Gray; Marine Life in Arctic Waters by Ian McLaren; Balloons Over the Arctic by D. C. Archibald; The Northern Lights by B. W. Currie; Scientific Research in the Arctic by W. E. Van Steenburgh, Y. O. Fortier and R. Thorsteinsson; The International Geophysical Year by Trevor Harwood; Operation Hazen by G. Hattersley-Smith; The Inside of the Earth by J. Tuzo Wilson; and Conclusion by R. Gordon Robertson.