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Showing the Flag : The Mounted Police and Canadian Sovereignty in the North, 1894-1925.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 1985Copyright date: ©1985Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (257 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780774857536
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Showing the FlagDDC classification:
  • 363
LOC classification:
  • HV8157 -- .M64 1985eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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