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Article: Red Serge and Polar Bear Pants.(Book Review)
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- December 1, 2005
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2005 Arctic Institute of North America of the University of Calgary. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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RED SERGE AND POLAR BEAR PANTS. By WILLIAM BARR. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2004. 385 p., b & w illus., maps, index, bib. Softbound. Cdn and US$34.95.
In this book, William Barr details the life and career of Harry Stallworthy, former RCMP officer and noted High Arctic traveller. While the book covers all periods of Stallworthy's life, its title and text emphasize his tenure in the High Arctic. That is entirely fitting, as it was in the Arctic that Stallworthy and a few other Mounties reinforced Canada's presence in its most remote region, while helping the Force capture the imaginations of Canadians in the period between the two World Wars.
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