LAWS 3305 Study Guide - Final Guide: United States Cavalry, North-West Rebellion, Indian Register
26 Sep 2020
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Running head: examining the role of the nwmp. Examining the role of the canadian north west mounted police in the context of frontier development. In canada the north west mounted police, now known as the royal canadian mounted. Police, or simply the mounties, have an almost mystical reputation. This reputation depicts them as the honourable mounties, peacefully settling the western canadian frontier, in stark contrast to their violent american counterparts (hildebrandt 2008, p. 35). It is so influential that even over one hundred years later it is still the image that pervades modern memory, despite only being from the perspective of the colonizer (hildebrandt 2008, p. 35). The fact of the matter is that the. Mounties were not as peaceful or as honourable as the myth suggests, the north west mounted. Police were an agent of canadian colonization but by doing so they would also secure canadian sovereignty and the rule of law.
