Gordon W. Smith, PhD, dedicated much of his life to researching Canada's sovereignty in the Arctic. A historian by training, his 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 This work is the first in a project to edit and publish Smith's unpublished opus - a manuscript on -A Historical and Legal Study of Sovereignty in the Canadian North and...
Gordon W. Smith, PhD, dedicated much of his life to researching Canada's sovereignty in the Arctic. A historian by training, his 1952 dissertation fro...