DISCUSSION TOPIC: HISTORY OF THE MOUNTIES

STARTING PLACES

•   Royal Canadian Mounted Police:  A good introduction from the Canadian Encyclopedia.

•   "RCMP: A Brief History," Indepth: RCMP, CBC News, June 22, 2005.

• R.C. Macleod, "Canada's Mounties: Myth And Reality," History Today, 50 (February 2000).

• Shane Peacock, "'Noble, Daring And Dashing," Beaver, 78 (June/ July 1998).

• Ian Band, "Power Serge," Beaver, 78 (June/ July 1998).

•   North-West Mounted Police -- A Tradition In Scarlet:  A Virtual Museum of Canada web-site.

•   RCMP History: An overview of the organization from the RCMP's official web-site.

ARTICLES

• Richard Van Orman, "Review Of Policing The Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, And The North American Frontier, 1875-1910," Journal Of American History, 95 (September 2008): 553-54.

• Pablo Mitchell, "Thin Blue Lines: Law And Order On The Great Plains," History: Review Of New Books, 36 (Spring 2008): 85-88.

• "Sitting Bull And The Mounties," History Net (June 12, 2006).

• Brian Bergman, "The Long March West," Maclean's, 112 (July 12, 1999).

• Greg Marquis, "One Hundred And Twenty-Five Years Of The RCMP Enigma," Beaver, 78 (June/ July 1998).

• Merv Ahrens, "The First NWMP Trek: From Ottawa To The Stone Fort, 1873," Beaver, 78 (June/ July 1998).

WEB-SITES

•   The Fort -- Museum Of The North West Mounted Police:

•   Canadian North West Mounted Police And The Yukon Gold Rush:

•   Fort Walsh National Historic Site Of Canada:  A Parks Canada web-site.

• History Of The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Mounted Police Post: A very brief historical overview from a private merchaniser.

•   Mountie In Hollywood:  A snippet from the RCMP web-site.

• Mounties Saddle Up:  A short overview of the origins of the Mounties from the companion web-site to the CBC documentary series, "Canada: A People's History."

• North-West Mounted Police:  A short entry from the Canadian Encyclopedia.

• RCMP Heritage Centre:

•   Royal Canadian Mounted Police -- Wikipedia:

•   Sam Benfield Steele:  A biography of the famous officer from the RCMP web-site.

NEWS

• Suzanne Taylor, "The Macleans.ca Interview: Norman Inkster," Macleans (July 6, 2007).

• "Archeologists Dig Up Original Mountie Fort Near Dawson," CBC News, August 14, 2002.

• Les Sillars, "Last Of The NW Mounted," Alberta Report/ Newsmagazine, 24 (May 5, 1997): 35.

• Clyde Farnsworth, "For The Mounties, Justice Is Now A Licensing Fee," New York Times, February 4, 1995.

MISCELLANEOUS

• Mounties Of The RCMP: A 2003 lesson plan by Nadine Fabbi, assistant director of the Canadian Studies Center at the University of Washington.

• Royal Canadian Mounted Police Celebrates 125 Years Of History In 2008:  A press release from the Government of Canada.

• Christopher Gittings, "Imaging Canada: The Singing Mountie And Other Commodifications Of Nation," Canadian Journal Of Communication, 23 (1998).