Prelude to Alliance: Britons and Yankees in the Far Northwest, 1867–1917

Authors

  • Preston Jones John Brown University

Keywords:

Alaska, Yukon Territory, Dawson City, Gold Rush, American Empire, British Empire

Abstract

The Northern Review 44 (2017): 293–326

In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries the United States became a significant imperial power with which an overstretched British Empire did not want conflict. The planting of numerous American flags in the Canadian Yukon, and especially in Dawson City, symbolized this dynamic, which was accompanied by some tension and apprehension on the part of British-Canadian authorities. At the same time, hints at a future friendly alliance between the United States and Britain can be seen in the mingling, in the Yukon Territory, of Yankees, Britons, and Canadians who all shared (among other things) a common literary heritage. Among these hints was an implausible but sincere proposal on the part of a US Congressman for the United States to cede the Alaska Panhandle to Canada. This article is part of a special collection of papers originally presented at a conference on “The North and the First World War,” held May 2016 in Whitehorse, Yukon.

https://doi.org/10.22584/nr44.2017.013

 

Author Biography

Preston Jones, John Brown University

Professor of History

Downloads

Published

04/18/2017

Issue

No. 44 (2017)

Section

The North and the First World War

License

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

 a. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

b. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

c. The journal has the right to authorize third-party publishers & aggregators to include the Article in databases or other services (EBSCO, Proquest).

d. The journal has the right to share the Article on the Internet, through social media and other means.