A Historical and Legal Study of Sovereignty in the Canadian North: Terrestrial Sovereignty 1870-1939. This item is unavailable.A Historical and Legal Study of Sovereignty in the Canadian North: Terrestrial Sovereignty 1870-1939

Gordon W. Smith s 1952 dissertation from Columbia University on The Historical and Legal Background of Canada s Arctic Claims remains a foundational work on the topic, as does his 1966 chapter Sovereignty in the North: The Canadian Aspect of an International Problem, in R. St. J. Macdonald s The Arctic Frontier. This work is the first in a project to edit and publish Smith s unpublished opusa manuscript on A Historical and Legal Study of Sovereignty in the Canadian North and Related Law of the Sea Problems. Written over three decades (yet incomplete at the time of his death in 2000), this work may well be the most comprehensive study on the nature and importance of the Canadian North in existence. "Volume 1: Terrestrial Sovereignty" provides the most comprehensive documentation yet available on the post-Confederation history of Canadian sovereignty in the north."

DR. GORDON W. SMITH (1918-2000) was a historian who spent his early career as a professor in Canada, the West Indies, and Africa. He devoted the last twenty-five years of his life to researching and writing the international history of the Canadian Arctic. P. Whitney Lackenbauer is a professor of History at St. Jerome's University (University of Waterloo) who specializes in Arctic sovereignty and security issues, Aboriginal-state relations, circumpolar history, and modern Canadian military, diplomatic and political history. He is the editor of the multi-award-winning A Historical and Legal Study of Sovereignty in the Canadian North (UCalgary Press).