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Article: Red Serge and Polar Bear Pants: The Biography of Harry Stallworthy, RCMP.(Book review)
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- American Review of Canadian Studies
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- September 22, 2006
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William Barr. Red Serge and Polar Bear Pants: The Biography of Harry Stallworthy, RCMP. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2004. xiv + 386 pp. $34.95 paper.
Biographies of noteworthy Canadians often include those of statesmen, entertainers, scientists, and explorers. Rarely are stories told about ordinary Canadians who make an extraordinary difference in the identity of the nation itself. Harry Stallworthy was not a statesman or an entertainer nor was he a scientist. Because of his service on Ellesmere Island and other northern postings with the RCMP, he may arguably be called an explorer, but he was more. William Barr, Professor Emeritus of Geography at the ...
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Article: Red Serge and Polar Bear Pants.(Book Review)
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December 1, 2005 ;
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... ... details the life and career of Harry Stallworthy, former RCMP officer and noted ... the book covers all periods of Stallworthy's life, its title and text ... as it was in the Arctic that Stallworthy and a few other Mounties reinforced ...
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