CANA 1F91 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Endemic Warfare, Modernism
5 Aug 2015
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The force created in 1873 to ensure that peace, order, good government would prevail in - Chaos in the northwest, 1870; growing concerns about law and order. Therefore, govt took action; created the north-west mounted police. Mission: to establish forts from which the land was to be tamed. With skill and discipline mounties chased out the whiskey traders. Soon the chiefs were properly grateful for their new peace and security. Tiny force supervised canada"s vast western lands. Defense of law and order continues in 20thc. Anti-terrorist activities during world wars, cold war. Radio shows (e. g, sergeant preston of the mounties. Keith walden: mountie myth as a response to modernity-- anxieties about urbanization, industrialization, secularization . Reinforced victorian notions of order, hierarchy, gender and ethnic stratification. Real men -- avoided the dangers of overcivilization and effeminacy. Mountie overcame trials and tribulations of the environment, proved he was ready for anything. Handsome, appealing to women, but lived celibately.
