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Inventing the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
From: Canada’s State Police
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In this chapter, Marquis describes how the North-West Mounted Police became the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, expanding federal powers of policing while building a heroic public image that often concealed its role in suppressing labour, Indigenous peoples and left-wing political views.
Contributors
Greg Marquis
Greg Marquis is a Professor in the Department of History and Politics at University of New Brunswick at Saint John (UNBSJ), specializing in Canadian history and criminal justice history. Professor Marquis has developed a number of courses in the area of law and society, and is on the editorial board of Acadiensis and the Social History of Alcohol and Drugs. In addition to criminal justice history, his research interests include urban history and urban policy, the history of popular culture and the history of alcohol and drugs. Greg Marquis lives in Quispamsis, New Brunswick.
