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A historical and legal study of sovereignty in the Canadian north : terrestrial sovereignty, 1870-1939
- Title
- A historical and legal study of sovereignty in the Canadian north : terrestrial sovereignty, 1870-1939 / Gordon W. Smith ; edited by P. Whitney Lackenbauer.
- Author
- Smith, Gordon W. (Gordon Ward), 1918-2000
- Publication
- Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press, 2014.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Lackenbauer, P. Whitney
- Description
- 491 pages : illustrations; 28 cm
- Series Statement
- Northern lights series, 1701-0004 ; no. 17
- Uniform Title
- Northern lights series (Calgary, Alta.) ; no. 17.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-480) and index.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Contents
- Introduction : Territorial sovereignty before 1870 -- The transfers of arctic territories from Great Britain to Canada, 1870-80 -- Period of relative inactivity and unconcern, 1880-95 -- Organization and administration of the NWT, 1895-1918 -- Whaling and the Yukon gold rush -- The Alaska boundary dispute -- Foreign explorers in the Canadian North, 1877-1917 -- Canadian government expeditions to northern waters, 1897-1918 -- The sector principle and the background of Canada's sector claim -- Vilhjalmur Stefansson and his plans for northern enterprise after the first World War -- Danish sovereignty, Greenland, and the Ellesmere Island affair of 1919-21 -- The Wrangel Island affair of the early 1920s -- The question of sovereignty over the Sverdrup Islands, 1925-30 -- The Eastern Greenland case and its implications for the Canadian North -- American explorers in the Canadian Arctic and related matters, 1918-39 -- The Eastern Arctic Patrol, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and other government activities, 1922-39 -- Epilogue: Henry Larsen, the St. Roch, and the Northwest Passage Voyage of 1940-42.
- Call Number
- JFF 15-1257
- ISBN
- 9781552387207 (pbk.)
- 1552387208 (pbk.)
- 1552387747
- 9781552387740
- 1552387763 (electronic bk.)
- 9781552387764 (electronic bk.)
- LCCN
- 2014486106
- OCLC
- 880490604
- Author
- Smith, Gordon W. (Gordon Ward), 1918-2000, author.
- Title
- A historical and legal study of sovereignty in the Canadian north : terrestrial sovereignty, 1870-1939 / Gordon W. Smith ; edited by P. Whitney Lackenbauer.
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Northern lights series, 1701-0004 ; no. 17Northern lights series (Calgary, Alta.) ; no. 17.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-480) and index.
- Additional Formats
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Added Author
- Lackenbauer, P. Whitney, editor.
- Other Form:
- Smith, Gordon W., 1918-2000, author. Historical and legal study of sovereignty in the Canadian north. Northern lights series Northern lights series, (CaOONL)20149029659
- Research Call Number
- JFF 15-1257