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
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.
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).