The Muskox Patrol: High Arctic Sovereignty Revisited

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Schledermann, Peter
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2003
• Subjects: Amundsen; Roald Englebregt Gravning; 1872-1928; Bernier; Joseph Elzéar; 1852-1934; Expeditions; Exploration; Foreign relations; Geopolitics; Government; Government regulations; History; Hunting; Inuit; Judicial systems; Krüger; Hans K.E; 1886-1930; Low; Albert Peter; 1861-1942; Muskoxen; Neptune (Ship); Nookapingwa; 1893-1956; Peary; Robert Edwin; 1856-1920; Rasmussen; Knud Johan Victor; 1879-1933; Royal Canadian Mounted Police; Sovereignty; Stallworthy; Henry Webb; 1895-1976; Stefansson; Vilhjalmur; 1879-1962; Sverdrup; Otto; 1854-1930; Wildlife management; Canadian Arctic Islands; Canadian Arctic; Bache Peninsula; Nunavut; Pond Inlet (Hamlet); Ellesmere Island; Greenland; Norway; Northwest Passage; Arctic; Canada; Cape Herschel; Devon Island; Dundas; Dundas Harbour; Flagler Bay; Herschel Island; Hudson; Hudson Bay; Kane; Lancaster Sound; Pond Inlet; Webb; Inughuit; inuit; inuktitut; Kane Basin; muskox; Northwest passage
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/63665

. Canadian government activities in the High Arctic between 1900 and 1933 were carried out almost exclusively in response to the real or perceived intentions of other nations to challenge Canada's sovereignty claims. . For 11 years, between 1922 and 1933, a small group of dedicated RCMP officer...