Showing the Flag : The Mounted Police and Canadian Sovereignty in the North, 1894-1925.
Morrison, William R.
Showing the Flag : The Mounted Police and Canadian Sovereignty in the North, 1894-1925. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (257 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Maps -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The Mounted Police -- 2. The Yukon: The Early Period -- 3. The Police and the Gold Rush -- 4. The Police as Civil Servants -- 5. The Police and Yukon Politics -- 6. North of the Arctic Circle -- 7. To Hudson Bay and the Eastern Arctic -- 8. Expanding Activities in the Mackenzie Delta -- 9. Hudson Bay -- 10. Patrols and Patrolling -- 11. The Police and the Native Peoples of the Northern Frontier -- 12. Ultima Thule -- 13. The End of the Frontier -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
This book describes to what extent the RCMP shaped the northern frontier -- a frontier which steadily shifted, separating territory under actual government control from that in which it was nominal.
9780774857536
Royal Canadian Mounted Police -- History.
Canada -- History.
Canada, Northern -- History.
Canada -- Politics and government.
Northwest, Canadian -- History.
Electronic books.
HV8157 -- .M64 1985eb
363
Showing the Flag : The Mounted Police and Canadian Sovereignty in the North, 1894-1925. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (257 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Maps -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The Mounted Police -- 2. The Yukon: The Early Period -- 3. The Police and the Gold Rush -- 4. The Police as Civil Servants -- 5. The Police and Yukon Politics -- 6. North of the Arctic Circle -- 7. To Hudson Bay and the Eastern Arctic -- 8. Expanding Activities in the Mackenzie Delta -- 9. Hudson Bay -- 10. Patrols and Patrolling -- 11. The Police and the Native Peoples of the Northern Frontier -- 12. Ultima Thule -- 13. The End of the Frontier -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
This book describes to what extent the RCMP shaped the northern frontier -- a frontier which steadily shifted, separating territory under actual government control from that in which it was nominal.
9780774857536
Royal Canadian Mounted Police -- History.
Canada -- History.
Canada, Northern -- History.
Canada -- Politics and government.
Northwest, Canadian -- History.
Electronic books.
HV8157 -- .M64 1985eb
363