Ottawa wants to modernize a region in the north that’s about six times the size of Texas, ‘just like in the 1800s’ Ottawa wants to modernize a region in the north that’s about six times the size of Texas, ‘just like in the 1800s’ Picture an Arctic territory, marginalized by its own country, almost entirely lacking roads, ports and power sources, but rich in mining potential and suddenly feeling vulnerable to outside threats. It’s not Greenland ; it’s the Canadian Arctic. After decades of