A century of Canadian Pacific police service.
By David Laurence Jones (Fifth House, 2013, 229 x 254 mm), this book traces the history of the Canadian Pacific's private police force. When the transcontinental railway was built in the 1880s to connect eastern Canada with the West Coast, that first lifeline stretched across more than two thousand miles of wilderness with no system of law enforcement. The country's mounted police took up the challenge at first, but responsibility for the security of people and goods soon fell to the CPR and the private police force that grew up with the company — from ad-hoc armed watchmen to the fully professional force created in 1913 by the CPR president. The book recounts more than a century of quiet battles against fraud, theft, smuggling, bombings and crime. In English.
Features
- A century of the Canadian Pacific's police force
- Author: David Laurence Jones · publisher Fifth House
- From armed watchmen to the professional force of 1913
- Fraud, theft, smuggling, bombings: the railway police at work
- Softcover, 229 x 254 mm
- In English
A century of Canadian Pacific police service.
By David Laurence Jones (Fifth House, 2013, 229 x 254 mm), this book traces the history of the Canadian Pacific's private police force. When the transcontinental railway was built in the 1880s to connect eastern Canada with the West Coast, that first lifeline stretched across more than two thousand miles of wilderness with no system of law enforcement. The country's mounted police took up the challenge at first, but responsibility for the security of people and goods soon fell to the CPR and the private police force that grew up with the company — from ad-hoc armed watchmen to the fully professional force created in 1913 by the CPR president. The book recounts more than a century of quiet battles against fraud, theft, smuggling, bombings and crime. In English.
Features
- A century of the Canadian Pacific's police force
- Author: David Laurence Jones · publisher Fifth House
- From armed watchmen to the professional force of 1913
- Fraud, theft, smuggling, bombings: the railway police at work
- Softcover, 229 x 254 mm
- In English