Showing the Flag: The Mounted Police and Canadian Sovereignty in the North, 1894-1925
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0774802456
ISBN13:9780774802451
Release Date:April 2002
Publisher:University of Washington Press
Length:220 Pages
Weight:1.25 lbs.
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