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Policing the Fringe
The Curious Life of a Small-Town Mountie
Charles Scheideman
HARBOUR PUBLISHING
Copyright © 2009 Charles Scheideman
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Front cover, main image: Charles Scheideman patrolling Chilcotin Highway 20, near Anahim Lake, early summer 1968 (photo courtesy the author). Front cover inserts: Left, grizzly bear, (sjulienphoto/iStockphoto). Centre, Scheideman at N Division Training School, winter 1961/62 (photo courtesy the author). Right, outhouse (mawear/iStockphoto). Back cover: A Freedomite attempts to save his greenhouse from fire while a plain-clothes officer looks on, Krestova, BC, circa 1965 (photo courtesy the author).
To protect the privacy of individuals, some names and details have been changed.
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Printed on 100% PCW recycled paper using soy-based ink.
Harbour Publishing acknowledges financial support from the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program and the Canada Council for the Arts, and from the Province of British Columbia through the BC Arts Council and the Book Publishing Tax Credit.
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Scheideman, Charles
Policing the fringe : the curious life of a small-town Mountie / Charles Scheideman.
ISBN 978-1-55017-482-3
1. Scheideman, Charles. 2. Royal Canadian Mounted Police—Biography. 3. Royal Canadian Mounted Police—Anecdotes. 4. British Columbia—Biography. I. Title.
HV7911.S34A3 2009 363.2092 C2009-900932-3
To
my wife, Patricia,
children, Howard, Sherry and Chris,
all those with whom I worked,
&
Reg. #18517 Staff Sergeant William Barry Beaulac
(retired),
my mentor and the finest police officer
I had the pleasure of working with.
Without Fear, Favour or Affection.