Red Serge and Polar Bear Pants: The Biography of Harry Stallworthy, RCMP
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0888644337
ISBN 13
9780888644336
Category
Fur Trade and Policing
[ Browse Items ]
Publication Year
2004
Publisher
Pages
xii, 385 pages
Subject
Yukon
Tags
Abstract
"From policing and prospecting in the Yukon, patrolling Chesterfield Inlet, establishing the RCMP's post in Stony Rapids, sledging across Ellesmere Island, coordinating aerial surveillance patrols in the Gaspe to guarding Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt in Quebec City in 1944, Harry Stallworthy's life was always full of adventure." "While stationed at Bache Peninsula, Ellesmere Island in the 1930s, Stallworthy led one of the longest arctic sledge patrols in RCMP history, searching for traces of German geologist Dr. Hans Kruger. In 1934 he set off with the Oxford University Ellesmere Land Expedition with Eddie Shackleton, son of the famous Antarctic explorer. Shackleton recalls that the Expedition "owed so much to this remarkable Polar man."--Jacket
Description
Contents:
1. Harry Stallworthy's life of adventure -- 2. A young Mountie and prospector -- 3. From the chocolate trade to Chesterfield Inlet -- 4. From a near-death experience to Jasper -- 5. Stony rapids, 1928-1930 -- 6. Bache Peninsula -- 7. Searching for Kruger, 1932 -- 8. Moving to Craig Harbour -- 9. Marriage and honeymoon -- 10. The Oxford University Ellesmere land expedition, 1934-1935 -- 11. North to Lake Hazen, Spring 1935 -- 12. Southern Mountie -- 13. Timberlane.
1. Harry Stallworthy's life of adventure -- 2. A young Mountie and prospector -- 3. From the chocolate trade to Chesterfield Inlet -- 4. From a near-death experience to Jasper -- 5. Stony rapids, 1928-1930 -- 6. Bache Peninsula -- 7. Searching for Kruger, 1932 -- 8. Moving to Craig Harbour -- 9. Marriage and honeymoon -- 10. The Oxford University Ellesmere land expedition, 1934-1935 -- 11. North to Lake Hazen, Spring 1935 -- 12. Southern Mountie -- 13. Timberlane.
Number of Copies
1