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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version:Smith, Gordon W., 1918-2000. Historical and legal study of sovereignty in the Canadian north. (CaOONL)20149029659 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Gordon W Smith; P Whitney Lackenbauer |
ISBN: | 9781552387757 1552387755 |
OCLC Number: | 1048196748 |
Description: | 1 online resource (491 pages) : illustrations |
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. |
Series Title: | Northern lights series (Calgary, Alta.), no. 17. |
Responsibility: | Gordon W. Smith ; edited by P. Whitney Lackenbauer. |
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Abstract:
Gordon W. Smith, PhD, dedicated much of his life to researching Canada's sovereignty in the Arctic. A historian by training, his 1952 dissertation from Columbia University on "The Historical and Legal Background of Canada's Arctic Claims" remains a foundational work on the topic, as does his 1966 chapter "Sovereignty in the North: The Canadian Aspect of an International Problem," in R. St. J. Macdonald's The Arctic Frontier. This work is the first in a project to edit and publish Smith's unpublished opus - a manuscript on "A Historical and Legal Study of Sovereignty in the Canadian North and R.
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- Canada, Northern -- International status -- History.
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- HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
- HISTORY -- Canada -- Post-Confederation (1867- )
- International law.
- Jurisdiction, Territorial.
- Sovereignty.
- Arctic Regions.
- Northern Canada.
- Souveraineté -- Histoire.
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