Research Catalog

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]
• ©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.

Subject

• 1914-1945
• Diplomatic relations
• International law
• Jurisdiction, Territorial > Canada, Northern > History
• Sovereignty > History
• Canada, Northern > International status > History
• Arctic regions > International status > History
• Canada > Foreign relations
• Canada > Foreign relations > 1867-1918
• Canada > Foreign relations > 1918-1945
• Arctic Regions
• Canada
• Northern Canada

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-480) and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic format.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9781552387207
• 1552387208
• 1552387747
• 9781552387740
• 1552387763 (electronic bk.)
• 9781552387764 (electronic bk.)

LCCN

^^2014486106

OCLC

• 880490604
• SCSB-11133410

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library