Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Police
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
Book Description
Report of the Commissioner of the North-West Mounted Police Force
Author: Policing the Great Plains
Author: Andrew R. GraybillPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803260024
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
In the late nineteenth century, the Texas Rangers and Canada?s North-West Mounted Police were formed to bring the resource-rich hinterlands at either end of the Great Plains under governmental control. Native and rural peoples often found themselves squarely in the path of this westward expansion and the law enforcement agents that led the way. Though separated by nearly two thousand miles, the Rangers and Mounties performed nearly identical functions, including subjugating Indigenous groups; dispossessing peoples of mixed ancestry; defending the property of big cattlemen; and policing industrial disputes. Yet the means by which the two forces achieved these ends sharply diverged;øwhile the Rangers often relied on violence, the Mounties usually exercised restraint, a fact that highlights some of the fundamental differences between the U.S. and Canadian Wests. Policing the Great Plains presents the first comparative history of the two most famous constabularies in the world.
Report of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police
Author: Royal North West Mounted Police (Canada)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Police
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
The NWMP and Law Enforcement, 1873-1905
Author: R. C. MacleodPublisher: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Traces the evolution of the force and investigates why it was so successful.
Report of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police
Author: Charcoal's World
Author: Hugh Aylmer DempseyPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803265523
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Charcoal's World was bounded by the mountains, hills, and plains of southwestern Alberta. That was the homeland of his people, the Blood Indians, but Charcoal was not free to enjoy it as his ancestors had. For millennia, they had lived each day in the company of spirits, and even with the coming of the white man that much didønot change. Major Samuel Benfield Steele of the North West Mounted Police did not know about the Indian spirit world and would not have cared to learn. In 1896 when Charcoal killed a man and made attempts on others, Steele saw him as a common murderer and vowed to chase him down. The tale of Charcoal is well known among the Indians of southern Alberta. Their stories of his exploits agree in many ways with the official reports of the North West Mounted Police, but the two sources conflict in the reasons for the success of Charcoal and his eventual downfall. Hugh A. Dempsey has spent twenty-five years researching the material on Charcoal; he has studied the government records and spoken with the elders and historians of the Blood Reserve. The result is Charcoal's World, giving us the Indian side of this remarkable story of Indian-white confrontation.
Official Reports of the Debates of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada
Author: Canada. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1310
Book Description
The Mounted Police and Prairie Society, 1873-1919
Author: University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research CenterPublisher: University of Regina Press
ISBN: 9780889771031
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This collection of essays presents a variety of scholarly explorations of the nature and role of the Mounties in the Prairie Provinces from the formation of the North West Mounted Police in 1873-74 to its transformation into the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1919-20. The essays are grouped into five broad themes: relations with First Nations; law enforcement; social issues, including relations with minority groups and labour movements; characteristics of the police force; and crisis and change (police-immigrant relations, response to labour unrest, and the origins of domestic intelligence and counter-subversion). An epilogue presents the case for the dramatic change of the force after 1919-20 and the new force's use of the positive image created by the old force.
Peel's Bibliography of the Canadian Prairies to 1953
Author: Ernest Boyce InglesPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802048257
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 948
Book Description
The Prairie Provinces cover Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
Hunger, Horses, and Government Men
Author: Shelley A. M. GaviganPublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774822546
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Scholars often accept without question that the Indian Act (1876) criminalized First Nations. Drawing on court files, police and penitentiary records, and newspaper accounts from the Saskatchewan region of the North-West Territories between 1870 and 1905, Shelley Gavigan argues that the notion of criminalization captures neither the complexities of Aboriginal participation in the criminal courts nor the significance of the Indian Act as a form of law. This illuminating book paints a vivid portrait of Aboriginal defendants, witnesses, and informants whose encounters with the criminal law and the Indian Act included both the mediation and the enforcement of relations of inequality.