“While Unpleasant it is a Service to Humanity”: The RCMP’s War on Drugs in the Interwar Period
@article{Hewitt2004WhileUI, title={“While Unpleasant it is a Service to Humanity”: The RCMP’s War on Drugs in the Interwar Period}, author={S. Hewitt}, journal={Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d'{\'e}tudes canadiennes}, year={2004}, volume={38}, pages={104 - 80} }
Abstract: In 1998, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) celebrated the 125th anniversary of its creation; however, the modern RCMP had actually come into existence in 1920 as a completely different police force from the North West Mounted Police of 1873. In 1917, the force had, with the exception of the northern territories, given up ordinary policing duties to devote its full attention to domestic wartime security and to sending an overseas contingent to Europe. After 1921, the future of… CONTINUE READING
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