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list price: $26.95
edition:Hardcover
category: Political Science
published: Jan 1991
ISBN:9781550170566
publisher: Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd.

Policing a Pioneer Province

The BC Provincial Police 1858-1950

by Lynne Stonier-Newman

tagged: law enforcement, pictorials
Description

From BC's colonial days through 1950, the BC Provincial Police were the province's main law enforcers and, in many places, the only ones. It was up to them to catch and prosecute thieves, gold-rush swindlers, brawlers, bootleggers and murderers throughout BC's vast wilderness, and constables also acted as tax collectors, coroners, census takers, paramedics and interpreters. This book is an absorbing, well-researched, very readable treatment of a little-known slice of BC history.

About the Author
Lynne Stonier-Newman was born in Quesnel, where her father was the BCPP highway patrolman. She now lives in Kamloops, where she is a technical writer, marketing consultant and history buff whose articles, fiction and poetry have been published in a variety of periodicals.
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