William R Morrison

Biographic Data

ID962905
NAMEWilliam R Morrison
GIVEN NAMESWilliam R
FAMILY NAMEMorrison
SIGNATUREMORRISON W R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Northern British Columbia
ORCID0000-0002-1663-8741
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS24
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT24
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1929
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX1

  • Land of the Midnight Sun, Third Edition: A History of the Yukon

    Ken S Coates, William R MorrisonBOOKLand of the Midnight Sun, Third…2017

    While the Klondike Gold Rush is one of the most widely known events in Canadian history, particularly outside Canada, the rest of the Yukon’s long and diverse history attracts little attention. Important developments such as Herschel Island whaling, pre-1900 fur trading, the post-Second World War resource boom, a lengthy struggle for responsible government, and the emergence of Indigenous political protest remain poorly understood. Placing well-k…

  • Emperor of the North: Sir George Simpson and the Remarkable Story of the Hudson's Bay Company, by James Raffan

    Open AccessWilliam R MorrisonARTICLEARCTIC2009

    Columbus, made a perceptive comment about historians who write biographies of explorers

  • The New North in Canadian History and Historiography

    Open AccessKenneth Coates, William R MorrisonARTICLEHistory Compass2008Cited by: 1References: 7

    This article reviews the current state of the historiography of the Canadian North, connecting scholarly writing on the region to the rapid and profound developments that have occurred in the North in recent years. It summarizes the priorities and imperatives of post‐Second World War historical writing on the North but looks more specifically at developments in the past two decades. The rapid growth of Indigenous‐focused and North‐centred scholar…

  • Land of the Midnight Sun: A History of the Yukon

    Ken Coates, Ken S Coates et al.BOOKLand of the Midnight Sun2005

    While the Klondike Gold Rush is one of the most widely known events in Canadian history, particularly outside Canada, the rest of the Yukon's long and diverse history attracts little attention. Important developments such as Herschel Island whaling, pre-1900 fur trading, the post-World War II resource boom, a lengthy struggle for responsible government, and the emergence of Aboriginal political protest remain poorly understood

  • Tracking the Snowbirds: Seasonal Migration from Canada to the U.S.A. and Mexico

    Ken Coates, Ken S Coates et al.ARTICLEThe American Review of Canadian…2002

    Spread your tiny wings and fly away And take the snow back with you Where it came from on that day So, little snowbird, take me with you when you go. To that land of gentle breezes where the peaceful waters flow --Gene MacClellan, Snowbird, sung by Anne Murray Each fall, millions of geese, ducks, hawks, and cranes start a long migration from northern North America, heading for warmer locations in the South. A few months later, large numbers of hu…

  • A Conceptual Framework for Environmental History in Canada's North

    Peter R Mulvihill, Douglas Baker et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental History2001References: 1

    A library's worth of books has been written on the history of northern Canada, most of them narratives, and most of which feature the environment, either as a main protagonist, or at least as a bit player. But with a few honorable exceptions, of which Jamie Bastedo's highly readable book on the Northwest Territories is a recent example, none have analyzed it., There are substantial bodies of both historical and environmental literature pertaining…

  • The Development of Property Rights on the Canadian and American Mining Frontiers

    Douglas Baker, Douglas C Baker et al.ARTICLEThe American Review of Canadian…1999

    Introduction It has sometimes been asserted that the history of mining in North America represents a kind of pure democracy, in which mining law was created by the miners without intervention from lawyers or politicians, and particularly without the input, interference, or advice of corrupt Eastern lawmakers. The classic expression of this idea is the Turner thesis, made popular by the turn of the century historian Frederick Jackson Turner. In an…

  • "To Make These Tribes Understand": The Trial of Alikomiak and Tatamigana

    Open AccessK S Coates, Kenneth Coates et al.ARTICLEARCTIC1998

    Alikomiak and Tatamigana were the first Inuit tried and executed for murder under Canadian law. The case was the third in a series of killings of outsiders by Inuit in the western Arctic which had begun in 1912; the first two had resulted in more lenient treatment. The trial of these two men, which took place in the summer of 1923, was in the nature of a show trial, designed by the federal government to show the Inuit that the authorities would n…

  • A Drunken Impulse: Aboriginal Justice Confronts Canadian Law

    K S Coates, Kevin Coates et al.ARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1996

    K. S. Coates, W. R. Morrison; A Drunken Impulse: Aboriginal Justice Confronts Canadian Law, Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 27, Issue 4, 1 November 19

  • Working the North: Labor and the Northwest Defense Projects, 1942-1946

    Katherine G Aiken, William R Morrison et al.ARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1995

    Journal Article Working the North: Labor and the Northwest Defense Projects, 1942–1946 Get access Working the North: Labor and the Northwest Defense Projects, 1942–1946. By Morrison William R. Coates Kenneth A.. (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 1994. xiv + 270 pp. Illustrations, map, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $30.00, cloth; $20.00, paper.) Katherine G. Aiken Katherine G. Aiken University of Idaho Search for other works by this au…

  • Tammarniit (Mistakes): Inuit Relocation in the Eastern Arctic, 1939-63, by Frank J. Tester and Peter Kulchyski

    Open AccessWilliam R MorrisonARTICLEARCTIC1994

  • The Alaska Highway in World War II: The U.S. Army of Occupation in Canada's Northwest

    Robert Bothwell, K S Coates et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1994

    Journal Article The Alaska Highway in World War II: The U.S. Army of Occupation in Canada's Northwest. By K. S. Coates and W. R. Morrison. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. xx, 309 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8061-2425-3.) Get access Robert Bothwell Robert Bothwell University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 4, March 1994, Pages 152…

  • Canada's newest university to focus on northern issues

    Open AccessWilliam R Morrison, William Morrison et al.ARTICLEPolar Record1994

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  • Out In The Cold: The Legacy of Canada’s Inuit Relocation Experiment in the High Arctic, by Alan R. Marcus

    Open AccessWilliam R MorrisonARTICLEARCTIC1993

  • Soldier-Workers: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Northwest Defense Projects, 1942-1946

    Kenneth Coates, Kenneth S Coates et al.ARTICLEPacific Historical Review1993Cited by: 1References: 2

    Research Article| August 01 1993 Soldier-Workers: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Northwest Defense Projects, 1942-1946 Kenneth S. Coates, Kenneth S. Coates Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar William R. Morrison William R. Morrison Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1993) 62 (3): 273–304. https://doi.org/10.2307/3640932 Views Icon Vie…

  • Land of the Midnight Sun: A History of the Yukon

    Melody Webb, Ken Coates et al.ARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1990

    Journal Article Land of the Midnight Sun: A History of the Yukon Get access Land of the Midnight Sun: A History of the Yukon. By Coates Ken S. Morrison William R.. (Edmonton, Alberta: Hurtig Publishers, 1988. 336 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $25.95.) Melody Webb Melody Webb Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volum…

  • The Northward Expansion of Canada, 1914-1967, by Morris Zaslow

    Open AccessWilliam R MorrisonARTICLEARCTIC1989

  • Part of the Land, Part of the Water: A History of the Yukon Indians, by Catharine McClellan

    Open AccessWilliam R MorrisonARTICLEARCTIC1988

  • Eagle Over the Arctic: Americans in the Canadian North, 1867-1985

    William R MorrisonARTICLECanadian Review of American Studies1987Cited by: 1References: 6

    Critics of the American imperialist impulse of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have pictured the United States as a country expanding greedily in every direction, engulfing a large part of Mexico, and more distant territories from Puerto Rico to Hawaii. Even Canada, America's most inoffen- sive neighbour, felt the breath of the imperialist whirlwind after Confedera- tion, particularly in the north during the Alaska boundary dispute o…

  • Showing the Flag: The Mounted Police and Canadian Sovereignty in the North, 1894-1925

    Melody Webb, William R MorrisonARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1987

    Journal Article Showing the Flag: The Mounted Police and Canadian Sovereignty in the North, 1894–1925 Get access Showing the Flag: The Mounted Police and Canadian Sovereignty in the North, 1894–1925. by Morrison William R.. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1985. xix + 220 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $15.95.) Melody Webb Melody Webb National Park Service, Santa Fe, NM Search for other wor…

  • F.J. Fitzgerald (1869-1911)

    Open AccessWilliam R MorrisonARTICLEARCTIC1986

    Francis Joseph Fitzgerald, veteran of 14 years' northern service with the North-West (later the Royal North-West) Mounted Police, and commander of the famous "Lost Patrol" of 1911, was born in Halifax on April 12th, 1869. In November 1888 he enlisted in the N.W.M.P. Except for a year's service in the Boer War as a sergeant with the Canadian Mounted Rifles, he spent the rest of his life with the Mounted Police, eventually rising to the rank of ins…

  • W.J.D. Dempster (1876-1964)

    Open AccessWilliam R MorrisonARTICLEARCTIC1986

    William John Duncan Dempster, veteran of 37 years' northern service with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, was born in Wales on October 21, 1876. Emigrating to Canada as a young man, he joined the N.W.M.P. in 1897 and the next year was posted to the Yukon, where he spent the rest of his career. Between 1898 and 1934, Dempster served in a dozen different Yukon communities, but his name received national attention in connection with the famous "Lo…

  • Showing the Flag: The Mounted Police and Canadian Sovereignty in the North, 1894-1925

    William R MorrisonBOOKShowing the Flag1985

    Under their various names the Mounted Police have played a vital, colourful, but often controversial role in Canadian history, and nowhere has this been truer than on the northern frontier. The police were the agents through which the central government asserted sovereignty over the Yukon and the Northwest Territories, just as it had done earlier on the Prairies. This book describes to what extent the RCMP shaped the northern frontier -- a fronti…

  • The Confederate Privateers

    Thomas Perkins Abernethy, William R Morrison et al.ARTICLEThe Mississippi Valley Historical…1929

    Journal Article The Confederate Privateers. By William Morrison Eobinson Jr. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1928. xvi+372 pp. Illustrations. $4.) Get access Thomas P. Abernethy Thomas P. Abernethy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 15, Issue 4, March 1929, Pages 547–549, https://doi.org/10.2307/1897897 Published: 01 March 1929