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Morrison William R (William Robert), <1942-> |
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Showing the flag : the Mounted Police and Canadian sovereignty in the north, 1894-1925 / / William R. Morrison |
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Vancouver, : University of British Columbia Press, 1985 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-22651-0 |
9786613226518 |
0-7748-5753-6 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (257 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Canada History |
Canada, Northern History |
Canada Politics and government |
Northwest, Canadian History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliography (p. [209]-216) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Under their various names the Mounted Police have played a vital, colourful, but often controversial role in Canadian history, and nowhere has this been truer than on the northern frontier. The police were the agents through which the central government asserted sovereignty over the Yukon and the Northwest Territories, just as it had done earlier on the Prairies. 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. The chapters treat each new spurt in this expansion and the period of contact and transition which followed. As agents of the |
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