Red Serge and Polar Bear Pants: The Biography of Harry Stallworthy, Rcmp

by William Barr

Book Overview

Harry Stallworthy spent 20 years in the Canadian North with the RCMP. While stationed at Bache Peninsula, Stallworthy led one of the longest arctic sledge patrols in the history of the Force, searching for traces of German geologist Dr. Hans Kr ger. In 1934 he set off with the Oxford University Ellesmere Land Expedition. He was present at the historic meeting of Roosevelt and Churchill in Quebec in 1944 and in the late 1950s was in charge of security...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888644337
• ISBN13: 9780888644336
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 9.0"