Book/Printed Material 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

Names

• Smith, Gordon W. (Gordon Ward), 1918-2000, author.
• Lackenbauer, P. Whitney, editor.

Created / Published

• Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press, 2014.

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.

Headings

• -  Canada, Northern--International status--History
• -  Arctic regions--International status--History
• -  Canada--Foreign relations--1867-1918
• -  Canada--Foreign relations--1918-1945

Notes

• -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-480) and index.
• -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

• 1 electronic resource (491 pages )

Call Number/Physical Location

• KZ4114

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2019667408

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2019667408

Rights Advisory

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported. CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ External

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access

Online Format

• image
• pdf

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2019667408

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