Lot 36
Unidentified
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Provenance:
Douglas Moodie, RCMP officer,
By descent to present owner
Note:
“Moodie and his partner, Jim Cooley, are two of the hundred and forty Mounted Policemen in forty-three outposts scattered across the north. These are no ordinary policemen: each man is postmaster, mining recorder, fishery officer, game warden, customs-collector, aircraft inspector, magistrate, jailer, sheriff, coroner, tax collector, midwife, nurse, and doctor all rolled into one.”
Pierre Berton, The Mysterious North: Encounters with the Canadian Frontier 1947-1954, McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1956