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and adventurers, also for the wonder-
ful work in bringing to trial the guilty
ones having to do with the 1885 Louis
Riel rebellion and their handling of
the Klondike gold rush.

As the duties of the force spread
“Northwest” was dropped from the
title and it became known as the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police in
1920.

Olson tells of the diplomatic hand-
ling by men of the force of some of
the ticklish problems that grew from
the depression years, when restless
unemployed armies were moving
across Canada, some with the sole pur-
pose of impressing Ottawa of the need
for some action; others in an angry
mood, defiant and prepared to take
issue with anyone representing au-
thority. They were tragic years of the
hungry thirties and included in the
marchers were men who had served
their country in World War I. skilled
tradesmén who could find no place
for their skill and younger men gradu-
ated to the working ranks but with-
out a sign of a job to get started.

All were tired, hungry, depressed
and discouraged, the author recalls.

He writes a dramatic chapter of
his first meeting with such a group.
Noticing many men wearing service
buttons he made his appeal to the
veterans. His orders were to get the
men to move on, and to search them
for arms. It was the attitude of some
of the older men who kept some of
the hot-headed younger men in check
that enabled the mountie to complete
his mission successfully.

“It was a pitiable sight to see them
move on to be shooed away again—

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unwanted. My heart ached for them
as I watched against the rising sun
the men walking wearily,” Olson
writes.

Another section of.the book tells of
the highly important security work
done by the force in World War II.

Olson had exciting and amusing
experiences of his own which his
amazingly retentive memory for de-
tail has recaptured for the reader.
Through the pages of his exciting
autobiography flow stirring accounts
of murder, lost patrols, chases through
the frozen wastes, courts held in
Eskimo communities and -rebellious
Doukhobors who strip. naked in
demonstrations.

Every detail of life in the mounties
-—the nature and organization of the
service, the training of new recruits,
the updating of its crime and crime
prevention techniques is clearly re-
ported: by the author.

The author clearly proves the point
he sets out to establish—that lore, —
tradition and esprit de corps has made
the figure of the Canadian mountie
a byword for adventure and heroism.

(“I Jotned the Mounties,” by Oscar
Olson, Pageant Press, Inc., 130 W.
42nd Street, New York, 36, N.Y.,
U.S.A.) kK &

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