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A historical and legal study of sovereignty in the Canadian north : terrestrial sovereignty, 1870-1939
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- Creator
- Gordon W. Smith ; edited by P. Whitney Lackenbauer
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press, 2014
- Physical Details
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- 491 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781552387207, 1552387208
- OCLC
- ocn880490604
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-480) and index.
- Issued also in electronic format.
- 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