Download or read book The Mountie written by Michael Dawson and published by Between the Lines. This book was released on 1998-04-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian Michael Dawson digs deep into the written and pictorial record to reveal how the RCMP, since its inception, has constructed and zealously guarded its public image. Drawing on previously untapped sources, Dawson documents how consultants and entrepreneurs deliberately transformed and modernized the traditional symbolism of the Mountie. His trenchant analysis extends to the ironies of the recent licensing of the hallowed Mountie image to the ultimate dream-merchants—Disney.

Download or read book Mountie Brides Books 1 3 written by Kate Bridges and published by Cabin Lake Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-27 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be whisked away with the passionate Mounties in the pioneer frontier, and the strong women they fall in love with! Enjoy this enthralling collection of award-winning cowboy historical romance from USA TODAY bestselling author, Kate Bridges. Book 1: LOVING DIANA (full length novel) In a bachelor auction, hardworking Diana wins herself a rugged Mountie for twenty-four hours. Diana Campbell prefers to avoid powerful and handsome men. Especially ones who are dangerous to her family. Orphaned and left to care for her younger siblings, Diana now works hard to make ends meet and keep her adolescent brothers out of trouble with the law. She’s extra guarded around the watchful Mountie, Mitch Reid. Winning his tempting services for twenty-four hours is a heartache that could only end in disaster. His daring questions, new technique of collecting “fingerprints,” and wild reputation with women make Diana’s life miserable. Book 2: RETURNING HOME TO MELODIE (a novella) A lonely Mountie, missing and presumed dead for two years, returns home to search for his wife. Logan Sutcliffe, recovering from his own kidnapping, has only one thing on his mind this bittersweet Christmas as he secretly returns home. To find his lovely wife, Melodie, and make things right. But when he walks back into her life one snowy December evening, it might be more than either of them can handle… Book 3: MAIL-ORDER SARAH (full length novel) A troop of Mounties secretly send their commander, Dr. John Calloway, a mail-order bride as a prank. Irresistible Mountie surgeon John Calloway is shocked by a pretty woman when she appears in his private quarters at Fort Calgary. She claims to be his mail-order bride. But he had nothing to do with sending for a wife, he insists, and would never request one by mail. Sarah O’Neill is taken aback by the arrogant good-looking surgeon, regardless of his apologies. She naively dreamed of a better life than the one she just escaped, and has another secret reason for coming to the West. Despite the sizzling chemistry between them, Sarah and John are definitely wrong for each other. Each book is an exciting standalone story. Don’t miss any of these wonderfully romantic and sexy heroes! "Passion sizzles on the pages. The dialogue is sharp and witty... I guarantee you won't put this novel down until you have read the very last page." Romance Reviews Today on Loving Diana Buy MOUNTIE BRIDES BOOKS 1-3, and escape into frontier adventure and romance today!

Download or read book Mountie Makers written by Robert Gordon Teather and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob Teather entered RCMP Basic Recruit Training three decades ago with no idea of what he was getting into. Along with 31 other confused young men, he found himself in Regina, Saskatchewan, as a lowly member of Troop 18. Bald, intimidated and soon to be bruised, Bob began a six-month ordeal that he candidly recalls in this engaging book. Corporal Teather’s story brings you close to six recruits from across the country—Prairie Dog, André, Lumchuck, Francois, weird Harold Burl and Teather himself, a scrawny kid from Hamilton—who often learned the hard way that “if it hurts you just tape an aspirin to it.” Their experiences capture the essence of Canada and provide revealing aspects of the traditional RCMP training process. Near the end of his active career, Bob came to realize that it was Basic Training that put the Canadian in his RCMP and that bonds its members into a force capable of policing this complex country.

Download or read book The Naked Mountie written by David A. Kift and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: N/A no book description

Download or read book The Mountie In The House and Other Stories written by Rick Butler and published by Agio Publishing House. This book was released on 2013-04-13 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From growing up in a Canadian Mountie household to writing Hollywood screenplays, debut short story writer Rick Butler has mined his real-life experiences for THE MOUNTIE IN THE HOUSE AND OTHER STORIES. "Butler makes delightful debut with short stories... great entertainment, with distinctive characters and tales... Butler has created a fine collection of memorable characters and tales. Let’s hope we hear more from this delightful storyteller soon," writes Jodi Delong in The Chronicle Herald (Halifax). "These are lively, insightful and highly entertaining stories from a very fine writer with talent to burn," says Leo Furey, author of The Long Run. "Prime reading for lovers of vivid, fast-paced fiction." Among the 14 quirky, often-humorous tales, a seven-year-old boy watches his Mountie father pursue justice in their small town. A Venice Beach murder victim pursues her killer from the other side. An escaped convict and a young screenwriter light out for old Mexico in pursuit of a hit movie. A disgruntled wedding guest disrupts a million dollar ceremony. A visiting student falls in with a rollicking cast of eccentrics in Brighton, UK. A screenwriter teams with Michael Jackson to pitch a movie plot to the biggest studios... "Rick Butler's short story collection is the ideal travel companion," says Chip Conley, author of Emotional Equations and Peak.

Download or read book The Mounties written by Elle Andra-Warner and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1873, the Mounties have brought the law to the furthest reaches of the Canadian frontier. Sam Steele, the "Lion of the North," was involved in almost every significant event in the Canadian West; James Macleod and James Walsh negotiated peace with the First Nations peoples. Less famous, unsung heroes risked their lives enforcing justice in the Canadian wilds. From stopping the whisky trade to policing the chaotic gold rush and patrolling the lonely North, these true tales of the early days of the Force are sure to amaze and entertain.

Download or read book O Bon in Chimunesu written by Catherine Lang and published by arsenal pulp press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: O-Bon in Chimunesu: A Community Remembered is a moving tribute to a community of Japanese-Canadians and the way they lived their lives. Prior to the Second World War, when Canada's official policy of internment changed the lives of Japanese-Canadians forever, the Vancouver Island town of Chemainus ("Chimunesu") was home to a thriving Japanese-Canadian community, whose members struggled to adapt to the difficulties of life in a new country, while at the same time keeping their own traditions alive. During the war, Japanese-Canadians on the west coast were shunted off to internment camps in the British Columbia interior, and were not permitted to return until 1949. Most decided to take up new roots elsewhere, and what had been a significant community in Chemainus was relegated to memory. Catherine Lang was a freelance reporter working on a story when she attended a 1991 reunion of Chemainus' former Japanese-Canadian community. The reunion occurred during O-bon, the annual Buddhist festival for the dead, in which burning candles light the way for the souls of ancestors. Lang couldn't resist such a meaningful encounter with living history. O-Bon in Chimunesu consists of poignant personal narratives of former residents of Chemainus' Japanese-Canadian community. They include the stories of Shige Yoshida, who after being refused entry into the Boy Scouts, formed his own troop, made up entirely of Japanese boys; Matsue Taniwa, who moved to Chemainus after an arranged marriage to raise children and tend a store; and Kaname Izumi, who remembers as a boy throwing candy from his boat to the children at the Native residential school on Kuper Island. Winner of the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize

Download or read book Line of Fire written by Edward Butts and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2009-08-03 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across Canada peace officers put their lives on the line every day. From John Fisk in 1804, the first known Canadian policeman killed in the line of duty, to the four RCMP officers shot to death in Mayerthorpe, Alberta, in 2005, renowned true crime writer Edward Butts takes a hard-hitting, compassionate, probing look at some of the stories involving the hundreds of Canadian law-enforcement officers who have found themselves in harm's way. Some, like the four RCMP officers who perished in the Northwest Territories on the "Lost Patrol" of 1910, died in horrible accidents while performing their duties. Others, such as the Mounties involved in the manhunts for Almighty Voice and the Mad Trapper of Rat River, found themselves in extremely dangerous, violent situations. One thing is certain about all of these peace officers: they displayed amazing courage and never hesitated to make the ultimate sacrifice for their fellow citizens.

Download or read book Detecting Canada written by Jeannette Sloniowski and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first serious book-length study of crime writing in Canada, Detecting Canada contains thirteen essays on many of Canada’s most popular crime writers, including Peter Robinson, Giles Blunt, Gail Bowen, Thomas King, Michael Slade, Margaret Atwood, and Anthony Bidulka. Genres examined range from the well-loved police procedural and the amateur sleuth to those less well known, such as anti-detection and contemporary noir novels. The book looks critically at the esteemed sixties’ television show Wojeck, as well as the more recent series Da Vinci’s Inquest, Da Vinci’s City Hall, and Intelligence, and the controversial Durham County, a critically acclaimed but violent television series that ran successfully in both Canada and the United States. The essays in Detecting Canada look at texts from a variety of perspectives, including postcolonial studies, gender and queer studies, feminist studies, Indigenous studies, and critical race and class studies. Crime fiction, enjoyed by so many around the world, speaks to all of us about justice, citizenship, and important social issues in an uncertain world.

Download or read book Field Stream written by and published by . This book was released on 1976-11 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FIELD & STREAM, America’s largest outdoor sports magazine, celebrates the outdoor experience with great stories, compelling photography, and sound advice while honoring the traditions hunters and fishermen have passed down for generations.

Download or read book The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language written by John Ogilvie and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Alaska Cowboys and Mounties Books 1 4 written by Kate Bridges and published by Cabin Lake Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-06 with total page 1243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read about rugged heroes and remarkable women as they fall in love! In this special box set from USA TODAY bestselling author Kate Bridges, you'll find the first four books in the award-winning Alaska Cowboys and Mounties series. These romantic and exciting western historical romances will make you smile, swoon and cheer! Alaska and the Yukon, 1898 Book 1: COLT (full length novel) Meet COLT, the strong and silent Mountie who's forced to escort the beautiful, brainy and talkative Elizabeth to the Klondike Gold Rush. Mountie Colt Hunter is on a dangerous undercover mission with his team of Mounties, traveling to Alaska and the Yukon, and the last thing he wants is the delicate doctor Elizabeth Langley joining them. He agrees to take her on the road only if she goes in disguise too--as his make-believe sister. Elizabeth thinks that pretending to be his sister is ridiculous. But she can fake it as well as he can. Book 2: LUKE (full length novel) Meet LUKE and Evie, who get accidentally married. Mountie Luke Hunter, a veterinarian for horses, is shocked when he stands in as a groom for a proxy wedding and is accidentally married to Evie Summerville. It was only supposed to be a formality for the paperwork while her real fiancé satisfies his gold fever out of town. But when the ailing judge writes the wrong names on the marriage certificate, Luke is officially stuck with Evie. To top if off, the judge was suffering from measles, and now the entire wedding party is quarantined. Book 3: DYLAN (full length novel) Meet DYLAN, a Mountie who is handcuffed and on the run with his beautiful but frustrating "pretend" wife, Lily. Rugged Mountie Dylan Wayburn goes undercover as a drifter in a stagecoach and is seated across from a gorgeous redhead from his past, Lily Cromwell. She doesn't recognize him at first, but she was once his family servant. My, how her fortunes have turned--she's struck gold and is now Klondike Lily, the richest woman in town. She's too fancy for the likes of him now, and could blow his cover sky high. Book 4: WESTON (a novella) Meet WESTON, a Mountie who never thought he would marry, much less be forced to the altar with a gun to his back. Mountie Weston Williams vows to focus on his duties as a new police recruit, and steer clear of Milly Thornbottom. He was quarantined with Milly and her troublesome family last summer during a scare of measles. Now at the Spring Fever Ball, Milly is all grown up, no longer awkward, and has a confidence Weston finds riveting. When he asks her to dance, it leads to a heated kiss and passionate embrace, witnessed by her father. Weston is marched to the altar at gunpoint to protect Milly's honor. "With passion and danger, just the right touch of humor, and exquisitely developed characters...a highly recommended read." CataRomance on COLT Each book is a wonderful standalone story. Don't miss any of these sexy and passionate romances! Box Set 1: Alaska Cowboys and Mounties Books 1-4 Box Set 2: Alaska Cowboys and Mounties Books 5-7 Box Set 3: Alaska Cowboys and Mounties Books 8-10

Download or read book Riding to the Rescue written by Steve Hewitt and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2006-12-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mountie may be one of Canada's best-known national symbols, yet much of the post-nineteenth century history of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police remains unexamined, particularly the period between 1914 and 1939, when the RCMP underwent enormous transformation. The nature of this transformation as it took place in Alberta and Saskatchewan – where the Mounties have traditionally dominated policing – is the focus of Steve Hewitt's Riding to the Rescue. During the 1914-to-1939 period, the nineteenth-century model of the RCMP was evolving into a twentieth-century version, and the institution that emerged responded to a nation that was being transformed as well. Forces such as industrialization, mass immigration, urbanization, and political radicalism compelled the Mounties to look away from the frontier and toward a new era. Incorporating previously classified material, which explores the RCMP both in the context of its ordinary policing role and in its work as Canada's domestic spy agency, Hewitt demonstrates how much of the impetus behind the RCMP's transformation was ensuring its own survival and continued relevance. Riding to the Rescue is a provocative and incisive look behind one of Canada's most enduring icons at the cusp of the modern era.

Download or read book An American Dictionary of the English Language written by Noah Webster and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Rotarian written by and published by . This book was released on 1974-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.

Download or read book 22 Murders written by Paul Palango and published by Random House Canada. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER A shocking exposé of the deadliest killing spree in Canadian history, and how police tragically failed its victims and survivors. As news broke of a killer rampaging across the tiny community of Portapique, Nova Scotia, late on April 18, 2020, details were oddly hard to come by. Who was the killer? Why was he not apprehended? What were police doing? How many were dead? And why was the gunman still on the loose the next morning and killing again? The RCMP was largely silent then, and continued to obscure the actions of denturist Gabriel Wortman after an officer shot and killed him at a gas station during a chance encounter. Though retired as an investigative journalist and author, Paul Palango spent much of his career reporting on Canada’s troubled national police force. Watching the RCMP stumble through the Portapique massacre, only a few hours from his Nova Scotia home, Palango knew the story behind the headlines was more complicated and damning than anyone was willing to admit. With the COVID-19 lockdown sealing off the Maritimes, no journalist in the province knew the RCMP better than Palango did. Within a month, he was back in print and on the radio, peeling away the layers of this murderous episode as only he could, and unearthing the collision of failure and malfeasance that cost a quiet community 22 innocent lives.

Download or read book The Great Karoo written by Fred Stenson and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2009-09-08 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning author Fred Stenson comes a richly evocative new novel, at once brutal and tender, spare of language, and profoundly moving. The Great Karoo begins in 1899, as the British are trying to wrest control of the riches of South Africa from the Boers, the Dutch farmers who claimed the land. The Boers have turned out to be more resilient than expected, so the British have sent a call to arms to their colonies — and an a great number of men from the Canadian prairies answer the call and join the Canadian Mounted Rifles: a unit in which they can use their own beloved horses. They assume their horses will be able to handle the desert terrain of the Great Karoo as readily as the plains of their homeland. Frank Adams, a cowboy from Pincher Creek, joins the Rifles, along with other young men from the ranches and towns nearby — a mix of cowboys and mounted policeman, who, for whatever reason, feel a desire to fight for the Empire in this far-off war. Against a landscape of extremes, Frank forms intense bonds with Ovide Smith, a French cowboy who proves to be a reluctant soldier, and Jefferson Davis, the nephew of a prominent Blood Indian chief, who is determined to prove himself in a “white man’s war.” As the young Canadians engage in battle with an entrenched and wily enemy, they are forced to realize the bounds of their own loyalty and courage, and confront the arrogance and indifference of those who have led them into conflict. For Frank, disillusionment comes quickly, and his allegiance to those from the Distict of Alberta, soon displaces any sense of patriotism to Canada or Britain, or belief that he’s fighting for a just cause. The events of the novel follow the trajectory of the war. The British strategy of burning Boer farms, destroying herds, and moving Boer families into camps weakens the Boer rebels, but they refuse to give up. The thousands of Boer women and children who die in the camp make the war ever more unpopular among liberals in Britain. (In fact, this conflict marked the first use of the term “concentration camp” in war.) Seeing the ramifications of such short-sighted military decisions, and how they affect what happens to Frank and the other Canadians, is crucial to depicting the reality of the Boer War. By focusing on the experiences of a small group of men from southern Alberta, Fred Stenson brings the reality of what it would have been like to be a soldier in this brutal war to vivid life. The Great Karoo is a deeply satisfying novel, marked by the complexities of its plot, the subtleties of its relationships, and the scale of its terrain. Exhilarating and gruesome by turns, it explores with passion and insight the lasting warmth of friendship and the legacy of devastation occasioned by war.