ARCTIC JUSTICE. On Trial for Murder, Pond Inlet, 1923

Hardback. The author recounts a critical episode in how Canada came to control its High Arctic. In 1922 a mad trapper threatened to kill the sled dogs of a group of Baffin Island Inuit and, following the Inuit customary law that individuals who endanger the community must be killed, he was executed. Nuqallaq, an Inuk, killed Robert Janes, a white man, and Canadian authorities made the unprecedented decision to put him and 2 accomplices on trial for murder, leading to the establishment of Canadian law enforcement in the North. The author shows that Canada's action was motivated more by international political concerns for establishing sovereignty over the Arctic than by the pursuit of justice. Illus. with 9 Maps and 81 Photographs and Illus. + Appendices, Notes, Bibliog. and Index. 342pp. lge. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true-crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. in f. dw. A fairly heavy book which may require additional postage.