Showing the Flag: The Mounted Police and Canadian Sovereignty in the North, 1894-1925

by William R. Morrison

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.