Red serge and polar bear pants : the biography of Harry Stallworthy, RCMP / William Barr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barr, William, 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stallworthy, Harry, 1895-1976.

Stallworthy, Harry.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Police--Canada--Biography.

Police.

Canada.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 385 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Edmonton, Alta. : University of Alberta Press, 2004.

Summary:

Harry Stallworthy spent twenty years in the Canadian North with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, in a range of landscapes and environments vastly different from his native England. While stationed at Bache Peninsula, the RCMP's most northerly detachment, Stallworthy led one of the longest arctic sledge patrols in the history of the force, searching for traces of German geologist Dr. Hans Kruger. In 1934 he set off again on the historic Oxford University Ellesmere Land Expedition. He was a member of the security force at the historic meeting of Roosevelt and Churchill in Quebec in 1944, and in the late 1950s he was in charge of security for the eastern half of the DEWLine. From policing and prospecting in the Yukon to coordinating aerial surveillance patrols against rum-runners in the Gaspe, the story of Stall-worthy's life was rarely uneventful. Most strikingly it captures the excitement, adventure, and mystery of the North.

ISBN:

0888644337

OCLC:

57576967