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

• 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

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...