Red serge and polar bear pants
Subtitle: the biography of Harry Stallworthy, RCMP
By: William Barr.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Alberta Press; The University of Alberta Press, an imprint of University of Alberta Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Edmonton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
Subjects: Stallworthy, Harry, 1895-1976; Stallworthy, Harry, 1895-1976; Royal Canadian Mounted Police -- Biography; Gendarmerie royale du Canada -- Biographies; Territory, National -- Canada; Explorers -- Canada -- Biography; Territoire national -- Canada; Explorateurs -- Canada -- Biographies; Canada, Northern -- Discovery and exploration; Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- Canadian; Canada, Northern -- Biography; Canada (Nord) -- Découverte et exploration; Arctique -- Découverte et exploration canadiennes; Canada (Nord) -- Biographies
Genres: Biography.; Biographies.
Description: "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.""--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.