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SHOWING THE FLAG This page intentionally left blank SHOWING THE FLAG The Mounted Police and Canadian Sovereignty in the North, 1894-1925 WILLIAM R. MORRISON University of British Columbia Press Vancouver, 1985 Showing the Flag: The Mounted Police and Canadian Sovereignty in the North, 1894-1925 © The University of British Columbia Press 1985 All rights reserved This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Canada Council. All photographs included in this book are from the Public Archives of Canada. Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Morrison, William R. (William Robert), 1942- Showing the flag Includes index. Bibliography: p. 209 ISBN 0-7748-0245-6 1. Royal Canadian Mounted Police - History. 2. Canada, Northern - History. 3. Canada - Politics and government - 1896-1911.* 4. Canada- Politics and government, 1911-1921.* 5. Northwest, Canadian - History - 1870- 1905.* I. Title. FC3216.2.M67 1985 363.2'09719 C85-091556-2 HV8157.M67 1985 International Standard Book Number 0–7748-0245-6 Printed and bound in Canada by John Deyell Company To Elizabeth, Linda, Catherine, John, Claire, and Ruth Morrison This page intentionally left blank Contents Illustrations ix Maps x Acknowledgements xi Introduction xiii 1. The Mounted Police 1 2. The Yukon: The Early Period 10 3. The Police and the Gold Rush 28 4. The Police as Civil Servants 50 5. The Police and Yukon Politics 61 6. North of the Arctic Circle 72 7. To Hudson Bay and the Eastern Arctic 87 8. Expanding Activities in the Mackenzie Delta 102 9. Hudson Bay 120 10. Patrols and Patrolling 132 11. The Police and the Native Peoples of the Northern Frontier 142 12. Ultima Thule 162 13. The End of the Frontier 174 Appendix 181 Notes 187 Bibliography 209 Index 217 This page intentionally left blank Illustrations following page 108 1. A. Bowen Perry, Commissioner of the Mounted Police 2. Sgt. Lee inspecting the guard, Whitehorse 3. The N.W.M.P. on duty in the Yukon 4. Sheep camp on the Cnilkoot Pass 5. Frederick White, Comptroller of the Mounted Police 6. N.W.M.P. detachment at Stewart River 7. The "Goddesses of Liberty" 8. The N.W.M.P. on duty in the Yukon 9. Superintendent Constantine's post at Forty Mile 10. Sir Samuel B. Steele 11. The N.W.M.P. on duty at the Chilkoot Pass 12. N.W.M.P. officers in Dawson 13. Placer mining operations at Hunker Creek 14. Police Barracks at Fort Cudahy 15. Police at Whitehorse 16. Police expedition to Fort McPherson 17. Members of the Neptune expedition 18. R.N.W.M.P. barracks at FuUerton 19. Members of the Fullerton detachment 20. Mrs. S. G. Clay 21. Settlement and police detachment at Herschel Island 22. Scottie, Inuit employee of the police at Fullerton 23. Superintendent J. D. Moodie 24. Fullerton detachment 25. On patrol, Dawson to Herschel Island 26. Inspector F. J. Fitzgerald 27. Corporal W. J. D. Dempster 28. Burying the members of the "Lost Patrol" 29. Graves of the "Lost Patrol" 30. Last page of Inspector Fitzgerald's diary 31. Inspector Fitzgerald's will 32. Churchill detachment 33. Hauling wood on patrol at Dease Bay 34. Sinnisiak and Uluksuk, on trial for murder in Alberta 35. Sinnisiak and Uluksuk 36. Trial of Alikomiak and Tatamigana 37. R.C.M.P. detachment at Craig Harbour 38. Landing supplies at Craig Harbour detachment 39. R.C.M.P. detachment at Dundas Harbour 40. Inspector Alan Belcher
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