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

by William R. Morrison

Book Overview

Under their various names the Mounted Police have played a vital,colourful, but often controversial role in Canadian history, andnowhere has this been truer than on the northern frontier. The policewere the agents through which the central government assertedsovereignty over the Yukon and the Northwest Territories, just as ithad done earlier on the Prairies. This book describes to what extentthe RCMP shaped the northern frontier -- a frontier which...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774802456
• ISBN13: 9780774802451
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.