Spying on Canadians : the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Security Service and the origins of the long Cold War

Kealey, Gregory S. 1948- (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9781487521585 (Paper)
ISBN: 1487521588 (Paper)
Physical Description: print
viii, 276 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, c2017.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: spying on Canadians. Part 1 Nineteenth-century roots : The empire strikes back: the nineteenth-century origins of the Canadian Secret Service -- "High-handed, impolite, and empire-breaking actions": radicalism, anti-imperialism, and political policing in Canada, 1860-1914. Part 2 The origins of the long Cold War : State repression of labour and the left in Canada, 1914-20: the impact of the First World War -- The surveillance state: the origins of domestic intelligence and counter-subversion in Canada, 1914-21 -- The early years of state surveillance of labour and the left in Canada: the institutional framework of the RCMP security and intelligence apparatus, 1918-26 -- Spymasters, spies, and their subjects: the RCMP and Canadian state repression, 1914-39 -- A war on ethnicity? The RCMP and Second World War internment. Part 3 The archival trail : Filing and defiling: the organization of the state security archives in the inter-war years -- The RCMP, CSIS, the Public Archives of Canada, and access to information: a curious tale. Permissions -- Index.