Gerd Bjørhovde has had a long career as Senior Lecturer and from 1991 Professor of English Literature at UiT the Arctic University of Norway. She has published several books and articles in English and Norwegian, including Å Canada – en reise i litteratur, kultur og natur (2017).Janne Korkka is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Turku, Finland. His research focuses on contemporary Canadian fiction, poetry and non-fiction in particular as they engage with Western and Arctic Canada. His publications include Ethical Encounters: Spaces and Selves in the Writings of Rudy Wiebe (2013).

• Gerd Bjørhovde & Janne Korkka: Introduction: Exploring Canada – Aritha van Herk: Encounters of Writer/ Explorers: Surprise and Ambush – Kim Richard Nossal: Northern Approaches: The Harper Government’s Arctic Policies Reconsidered – Karim M. Tiro & Roy Wright: The Mathematical Encounter: Land, Language and Numbers in the Creation of Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory – Mary I. Ingraham: Cultural Extractivism and the Possibility for Resurgence – Giorgio Baruchello: From Ontario to the United Nations: An Introduction to the Thought and Influence of John McMurtry, FRSC – Jennifer Andrews: Becoming Bird(ie): Exposing Canadian Government Complicity with Forced Adoptions in Christina Sunley’s The Tricking of Freya – Uwe Zagratzki: Striking Many Chords: Selected Canadian World War II Novels – Jordan Bolay: Becoming Lost: Rediscovering Absence through the Guy Vanderhaeghe Fonds – Marta Kijewska- Trembecka: Canada Equals "The Good Life": Two Centuries of Polish Emigrants’ Experiences of "Exploring" Canada – Judit Nagy & Sangjun Jeong: Diasporic Explorations: Korean Canadian Immigrants’ Convenience Store Stories – Yulia Gordina: "She’s an intense little chick. – She’s Russian": Orientalizing East European Women in Canadian Narratives – Nikola Tutek: An Island in Between: Subtle Literary Exploration of Iceland in George Bowering’s "Discoloured Metal" – Kristín M. Jóhannsdóttir: Tense in North American Icelandic – Vilhelm: Vilhelmsson: Proving Their Worth: Icelanders and the Winnipeg Labour Movement, 1890– 1900 – Editors – Contributors.