The police and dogs during the early patrol years in the Western Canadian Subarctic: An inter-species colonial cooperation?

Robert P. Wishart

The police and dogs during the early patrol years in the Western Canadian Subarctic: An inter-species colonial cooperation?

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The history of dogs in the North includes a variety of inter-species relationships and various working roles. This chapter seeks to shed light on the relationships and roles dogs had in the “opening” of the Canadian North-West during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by examining the use of dogs by the North West Mounted Police (NWMP), Royal North West Mounted Police (RNWMP), and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Dogs in the North
Subtitle of host publication	Stories of Cooperation and Co-Domestication
Editors	Robert J. Losey, Robert P. Wishart, Jan Peter Laurens Loovers
Place of Publication	Oxon
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	8
Pages	152-171
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Electronic)	9781315437736
ISBN (Print)	9781138218406
Publication status	Published - 18 Jun 2018

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Name	Arctic Worlds: Communities, Political Ecology and Ways of Knowing
Publisher	Routledge

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Robert Wishart
- Arctic Domus Research Group
- The North
- Social Science, Anthropology - Lecturer
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Wishart, R. P. (2018). The police and dogs during the early patrol years in the Western Canadian Subarctic: An inter-species colonial cooperation? In R. J. Losey, R. P. Wishart, & J. P. L. Loovers (Eds.), Dogs in the North: Stories of Cooperation and Co-Domestication (pp. 152-171). (Arctic Worlds: Communities, Political Ecology and Ways of Knowing). Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315437736-8/police-dogs-early-patrol-years-western-canadian-subarctic-robert-wishart

The police and dogs during the early patrol years in the Western Canadian Subarctic: An inter-species colonial cooperation? / Wishart, Robert P.
Dogs in the North: Stories of Cooperation and Co-Domestication. ed. / Robert J. Losey; Robert P. Wishart; Jan Peter Laurens Loovers. Oxon: Routledge, 2018. p. 152-171 (Arctic Worlds: Communities, Political Ecology and Ways of Knowing).

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Wishart, RP 2018, The police and dogs during the early patrol years in the Western Canadian Subarctic: An inter-species colonial cooperation? in RJ Losey, RP Wishart & JPL Loovers (eds), Dogs in the North: Stories of Cooperation and Co-Domestication. Arctic Worlds: Communities, Political Ecology and Ways of Knowing, Routledge, Oxon, pp. 152-171. <https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315437736-8/police-dogs-early-patrol-years-western-canadian-subarctic-robert-wishart>

Wishart, Robert P. / The police and dogs during the early patrol years in the Western Canadian Subarctic : An inter-species colonial cooperation?. Dogs in the North: Stories of Cooperation and Co-Domestication. editor / Robert J. Losey ; Robert P. Wishart ; Jan Peter Laurens Loovers. Oxon : Routledge, 2018. pp. 152-171 (Arctic Worlds: Communities, Political Ecology and Ways of Knowing).

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