The Conspiracy: The Canadian Response to the Order of the Midnight Sun and the Alaska Boundary Dispute

• Main Author: Dumonceaux, Scott
• Other Authors: Waiser, Bill, Deutscher, Tom, Smith-Norris, Martha
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Saskatchewan 2013
• Subjects: Order of the Midnight Sun; Alaska Boundary Dispute; North-west Mounted Police; Klondike Gold Rush; British Columbia; Canada; Yukon; Skagway; Alaska; midnight sun
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2013-09-1234

In September 1901 the North-West Mounted Police learned that a group of American miners, calling themselves the Order of the Midnight Sun, were planning to take over the Yukon. The Conspiracy, as the plot to overthrow the Mounted Police and establish an independent republic in the Alaska boundary re...