Short description
Stallworthy's (1895-1976) voluminous letters; his reports, photographs, and documents; his wife's diaries; and his service record and medical file with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police were deposited with the Arctic Institute of North America at the University of Calgary. Himself a senior researcher with the Institute, Barr (emeritus geography, U.
Long description
How do you live a rich, colourful life full of adventure? Walk a day in RCMP officer Harry Stallworthy's snowshoes. Author William Barr draws on official RCMP reports, Stallworthy's letters to his family and to his beloved wife Hilda, and other historic documents as he unravels the thrilling and previously untold life story of this remarkable Canadian. The University of Alberta Press is proud to present this detailed biography of a member of the RCMP who played a crucial role in asserting Canada's sovereignty in the Arctic. Having emigrated to Canada from England in 1913 Harry Stallworthy joined the Force in 1914 and until 1921 served at various detachments in the Yukon, except for the period 1918-19 when he participated in the RNWMP's Cavalry Detachment as part of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the final bloody months of World War I in Flanders. Take a step back into Canada's rich history and discover the world of Harry Stallworthy, a man of integrity and leadership, in this written tribute to his grand experiences and fantastic life journey.
Review
"Meanwhile, Barr deserves praise of his own. Red Serge and Polar Bear Pants, exhaustively researched and well-written, is a worthy match for the man he writes about, and for the complex issues that arose when cultures met, collided and melded." -- Erling Friis-Baastad, The Yukon News. "[T]he real pleasure of Red Serge and Polar Bear Pants remains in the stories, which take readers along on a series of epic journeys, fascinating side trips and a lifetime devoted to adventure." -- Ken Tingley, The Edmonton Journal."This book is one of the finest we have seen about life and hardship in the Arctic. ...a book worth reading." -- Alberta History Journal, Spring 2005. "This remarkable young Englishman led one of the longest polar sledge patrols in RCMP history accompanying Ernest Shackleton. His 20 years in the North assisted in firming up Canada's claim to sovereignty in the Arctic. A good adventure tale and an important historical report." -- Ron MacIsaac, Island NEWS (Victoria, BC).
Table of contents
- Harry Stallworthy's Life of Adventure
- A Young Mountie and Prosecutor
- From the Chocolate Trade to Chesterfield Inlet
- From a Near-Death Experience to Jasper' Stony Rapids, 1928-30
- Bache Peninsula
- Searching for Kruger, 1932
- Moving to Craig Harbour
- Marriage and Honeymoon
- The Oxford University Ellesmere Land Expedition 1934-1935
- North to Lake Hazen, Spring 1935
- Southern Mountie
- Timberlane
- Index.