Stallworthy of the Mounted: A Textual Analysis of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s Arctic Presence, 1923-1935

On the surface, this thesis explores a few incidents in the life of an individual Mountie, Harry Stallworthy. However, in depth it examines how Stallworthy’s work intersected with Canadian sovereignty and colonialism in a period of Canadian history when representations of Canadian icons (the North a...

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Main Author: Heumann, Michelle
Other Authors: Colpitts, George, Routledge, Karen, Wiens, Jason, Marshall, David B.
Format: Master Thesis
Language:English
Published: Arts 2020
Subjects:
Canadian history
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
RCMP
Harry Stallworthy
Arctic
Canadian sovereignty
Ellesmere Island
Maggie Clay
Colonialism
Textual analysis
Archival research methods
Chesterfield Inlet
Inuit special constables
Inughuit
Muskox
Oxford University Ellesmere Island expedition
Nukappiannguaq
Edward Shackleton
Economics > History
Shackleton
inuit
muskox
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1880/112411
https://doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/38098
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Summary:On the surface, this thesis explores a few incidents in the life of an individual Mountie, Harry Stallworthy. However, in depth it examines how Stallworthy’s work intersected with Canadian sovereignty and colonialism in a period of Canadian history when representations of Canadian icons (the North and the Mountie) were of great importance. It also develops a framework that could be used to analyze texts found in many archival fonds. This thesis investigates the way RCMP officer Harry Stallworthy wrote differently for different audiences about the experiences he had while supporting the Canadian government’s attempts to establish control over the Arctic in the 1920s and 30s.

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