Dunn, who recently turned 81, lives in Calgary. Though your book focuses specifically on the Royal North-West Mounted Police, how far does your fascination stretch back with Mounties more generally?

Bet you never pictured our stalwart Mounties starting out with two men blind in one eye, five with serious heart conditions, one with TB, another with a broken leg and one with advanced syphilis ...

Sam Steele of the North-West Mounted Police, in Dawson City ... have much of a sense of humour," said Rod Macleod, whose new book Sam Steele: A Biography is based on unprecedented access to ...

A gold panner when the North West Mounted Police first met him along the North Thompson River in 1872, he was later noticed selling vegetables and butter with his wife at Fort Macleod.

It was crucial to shaping Canada and — on the 140th anniversary of North West Mounted Police’s creation — still one of the force’s most important moments. French’s diaries were filled ...