Political Science Law Enforcement
Policing a Pioneer Province
The BC Provincial Police 1858-1950
- Publisher
- Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd.
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1991
- Category
- Law Enforcement, Pictorials, General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781550170566
- Publish Date
- Jan 1991
- List Price
- $26.95
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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 is a freelance writer, historian and communications consultant who is the author of articles, poetry and plays about BC. She was born in Quesnel, where her father was the BCPP patrolman. She is the author of Policing a Pioneer Province, The Lawman: Adventures of a Frontier Diplomat and Peter O' Reilly: The Rise of a Reluctant Immigrant. She was also a contributor to the 2008 CBC Radio One book The Trail of 1858.
