In Those Days: Arctic Crime and Punishment

by Kenn Harper

Kenn Harper shares the tales of murderers, thieves, and fraudsters--as well as the wrongfully accused--in the early days of Northern colonization. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, settler and Inuit ideas of justice clashed, leading to some of the most unusual trials and punishments in history.

156 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2015

About the author

Kenn Harper is a Canadian historian, teacher, development officer, linguist, and businessman. He is an author of books on life in the high Arctic and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. His book, Give Me My Father's Body, tells the tragic yet compelling story of Minik Wallace, a member of the Inughuit or "Polar Eskimo" tribe who was taken by Robert Peary from his home in northwest Greenland to New York.
In 2005, Harper was appointed Danish Honorary Consul, a posting located in Iqaluit, Nunavut.
Harper is fluent in English, Inuktitut and conversational Danish. Harper currently lives with his wife in Iqaluit.