Showing the flag : the Mounted Police and Canadian sovereignty in the north, 1894-1925 / William R. Morrison.
TITLE:
Showing the flag : the Mounted Police and Canadian sovereignty in the north, 1894-1925 / William R. Morrison.
Publication Date:
1985
Publication Information:
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press,
Physical Description:
xix, 220 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.
Bibliography Note:
Bibliography: p. [209]-216.
Summary:
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.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780774802451
General Note:
Includes index.
