| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.2

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Book Review

Red Serge and Polar Bear Pants: The Biography of Harry Stallworthy, RCMP. By William Barr. (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2004. xii + 385 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes bibliography, index, $34.95.)

Harry Stallworthy spent almost all of his adult life either working in the Canadian North and Arctic with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or thinking about how he might return to duty in those regions. And while it was his career with the police that brought Stallworthy to northern Canada, it is difficult to come away from William Barr's biography without concluding that being a policeman ranked considerably lower in Stallworthy's estimation than did answering the challenge of living in the Far North. Emphasizing the outward manifestations of Stallworthy's life and career, Barr charts a course from Stallworthy's arrival in Canada, a brief foray into farming, police training, northern, and eventually Arctic, tours of duty, southern postings and, in time, to retirement on Vancouver Island. The core of the biography is Stallworthy's leadership of the 1932 Axel Heiberg Island search for Hans Krüger's lost expedition and the 1934/35 Oxford University Ellesmere Land Expedition, for it was on these occasions that Stallworthy demonstrated his mettle as a "polar man."

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