Download or read book Policing a Pioneer Province written by Lynne Stonier-Newman and published by Harbour Publishing Company. This book was released on 1991 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.