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Deane, R. Burton, 1848-1930
Frontier and pioneer life--Alberta
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North West Mounted Police (Canada)--Biography
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Calgary, Alberta: Historical Society of Alberta, 1993
Pioneer Policing in Southern Alberta : Deane of the mounties
Deane, R. Burton
Table of Contents
Cover
Table of Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Comment on Sources and Publication Format
Abbreviations
"Little Oasis in a Desert" Lethbridge Division 1888-1892
A. Monthy Report
I- 1 "Down the Sergeants' Latrine", Deane, Monthly Report, September 1892
B. Land and Weather
I - 2 "Double Reefer Topsail Breeze" Deane, Monthly Report, June 1889
I - 3 "Burnt Over" Deane, Annual Report, 1889
I - 4 "No Country for Farming" Deane, Monthy Report, May 1880
I - 5 " Unfortunate Year", Deane, Annual Report, 1892
C. Native People
I - 7 Dubious Accusations Deane, Monthly Report, July 1888
I - 8 Child Prostitution? Deane, Monthly Report, February, 1891
I - 9 "Truth of the Indian Stories" Deane, Annual Report, 1890
I - 10 Star Child, Deane Monthly Report, April, 1889
Deane Annual Report 1889
I -11 Bad Indian Deane, Monthly Report June 1891
I - 12 Clearing the Border Deane, Annual Report, 1892
D. Livestock
I - 13 Horse Raid Deane, Annual Report, 1891
I - 14 Theft by "The Kid" Deane, Annual Report, 1888
I - 15 Disease Deane, Monthly Report June 1888
I - 16 Heads and Horns in the Snow Deane, Monthly Report April, 1892
I - 17 Runaway Team Deane, Monthly Report December 1892
I - 18 Border Troubles Deane, Monthly Report December 1892
E. Liquor
I - 19 Smuggling Deane, Annual Report, 1889
I - 20 "Prohibitive Law is Practically Inoperative" Deane, Annual Report, 1889
I - 21 "Selling Intoxicants to Indians" Deane, Monthly Report October 1890
I - 22 "Assaulting and Resisting the Police" Deane, Monthly Report June 1888
I - 23 "Drinks of Whiskey Before Church Parade" Deane, Monthly Report April 1890
I - 24 The New Law Deane Yearly Report, 1892
"Thick Skulls" and "Soiled Doves" Lethbridge Division 1893-1897
A. Economic Circumstances and Labor Strife
II - 1 Depressing Outlook Deane, Annual Report, 1895
II - 2 Lockout of Miners Deane, Weekly Report, 2 February, 1894
Deane Monthly Report, February 1894
Deane Monthly Report, March 1894
Deane, Monthly Report April 1894
II - 3 "Palmy Days" Deane, Annual Report, 1897
B. The Underside of Lethbridge
II - 4 "Various Nationalities" Deane, Annual Report, 1894
II - 5 A Stabbing Deane, Monthly Report December, 1893
II - 6 Wedding Violence Deane, Weekly Report, 2 February, 1894
II - 7 "In Flagrante Delicto" Deane, Monthly Report October, 1895
C. The Killing of Dave Akers
II - 8 A Dubious Tale Deane, Special Report, 7 December, 1893
II - 9 "Hard Luck" Deane, Monthly Report December 1893
D. Gender Relations
II - 10 "Improper Overtures" Deane, Monthly Report December, 1893
II - 11 Girls' Latrine Deane, Monthly Report September, 1897
II - 12 "Promiscuous Fornication" Deane, Monthly Report July, 1894
II - 13 Le Triangle Deane, Monthly Report August, 1893
II - 14 Tar and Feathers Deane, Annual Report, 1895
II - 15 Ending a Liasion Deane, Monthly Report December, 1896
II - 16 "He Will Probably Kill Her" Deane, Monthly Report, November 1894
Deane, Monthly Report March 1895
Deane, Monthly Report October 1895
Deane, Monthly Report November 1895
E. The Flotsam and Jetsom of Society
II - 17 Body in Badger Hole Deane, Weekly Report, 3 August, 1894
II - 18 Escape by Conjury Deane, Monthly Report October, 1896
II - 19 Clipsham in the "Crank" Deane, Weekly Report, 2 February, 1894
II - 20 Tramp Accused of Rape Deane, Weekly Report, 16 July, 1897
II - 21 Offensive Vagrant Deane, Monthly Report December, 1893
II - 22 Aristocratic Vagrant Deane, Monthly Report December, 1897
II - 23 Am "Imbecile" Deane, Monthly Report December, 1895
Deane to Lieutenant Governor 23 October 1896
II - 24 "A Lunatic" Deane, Monthly Report July 1896
II - 25 An "Insane Person" Deane, Monthly Report April, 1897
II - 26 "Cut His Throat With a Razor" Deane, Monthly Report September, 1897
II - 27 "Stealing a Ride" Deane, Weekly Report, 24 April, 1896
II - 28 Death of a Boy, Deane, Monthly Report October, 1896
II - 29 "Juvenile Depravity" Deane, Weekly Report, 14 June 1895
"Submission to Constituted Authority" Macleod and Lethbridge Divisions 1898-1902
A. The Crow's Nest Pass Railway
III - 1 "Four Men Died" Deane, Monthly Report for Macleod, April, 1898
III - 2 No Inquest Deane to Commissioner, 17 August, 1898
III - 3 "Criminal Negligence" Deane, Monthly Report for Macleod June 1899
III - 4 A Bloody Fight Deane, Monthly Report for Macleod January, 1901
III - 5 The Mail Did Not Go Through Deane, Monthly Report for Macleod August, 1898
B. Cultures in Conflict
III - 6 "Learning the Lesson of Submission" Deane Annual Report for Macleod, 1898
III - 7 Red Crow's Complaints Deane, Monthly Report for Macleod July 1899
III - 8 Red Crow's Last Sun Dance Deane, Monthly Report for Macleod May 1900
Deane to Commissioner, 12 February, 1901
Deane, Monthly Report for Macleod August, 1900
Deane, Monthly Report for Macleod December, 1900
III - 9 "Hand Over the Children" Deane, Monthly Report for Macleod August, 1900
C. The Town of Macleod
III - 10 The Wild West? Macleod Gazette, 14 September, 1900 enclosed with extract from Deane, Monthly Report for Macleod, September, 1900
III - 11 Destitute Mother Deane, Monthly Report for Macleod February, 1899
III - 12 Constable and Wife in Distress Deane, Monthly Report for Macleod December, 1898
III - 13 "Attempted Suicide" Deane, Monthly Report for Macleod February, 1900
III - 14 "Blown His Brains Out" Deane, Monthly Report for Macleod November, 1899
III - 15 'Close Up All Houses of Ill Fame" Deane, Monthly Report for Macleod August 1898
Inspector A R Cuthbert, Monthly Report for Macleod September, 1898
Deane, Monthly Report for Macleod June 1899
D. The Mormom Community
III - 16 "Most Capable Men" Deane, Annual Report for Macleod, 1899
III - 17 Practicing Medicine Deane, Monthly Report for Macleod July, 1899
Deane, Monthly Report for Macleod August, 1899
III - 18 Polygamy Deane to Commissioner, 17 March 1899
III - 19 A Fiesty Woman Deane, Annual Report for Macleod, 1900
E. A Cattle Smuggling Operation
III - 20 A Crime That Simply Added Up Deane, Draft of Annual Report for the Maple Creek Division, 1902
Rugged Individualism Medicine Hat and Southeastern Alberta 1902-1906
A. Non-treaty Indians
IV - 1 Smallpox Deane Annual Report, 1903
IV - 2 "Morbidly Afraid of Accepting Assistance" Deane, Annual Report, 1904
Deane Annual Report, 1905
IV - 3 Resisting Arrest, Inspector W. Parker Crime Report (Submitted to Deane): Assault on Peace Officers by Ka-cess, a Cree Woman, 26 April, 1906
IV - 4 "No Complaints of Their Conduct" Deane to Commissioner, 5 April, 1906
B. Robbery on the Range
IV - 5 "Here a Calf, There a Calf, Here and There a Calf" Deane, Annual Report, 1904
Deane, Mounted Police Life in Canada pp. 102-103
IV - 6 "The Prairie Species That Preys Upon His Neighbours" Deane, Annual Report, 1905
IV - 7 "A Ready Way of Making Mavericks" Deane, Annual Report 1903
C. Prostitution in Medicine Hat
IV - 8 The Reverend's Complaint Deane, Monthly Report, December 1902
IV - 9 Disorderly House of a Madam Named "Archie" Sergeant W B Macleod to Deane 20 February 1903
IV - 10 Venereal Disease Deane to Commissioner 28 April, 1904
Inspector C Starnes to Deane, 30 April, 1904
Inspector Starnes to Deane, 4 May 1904
Deane to Commissioner, 10 May, 1904
Deane to Commissioner, 16 June, 1904
D. Death by Water
IV - 11 Accidental Drowning Sergeant D G Quinn to Deane, 11 June, 1905
IV - 12 "She Said She Was Going to Drown Herself" Inspector W.Parker, Criem Report (submitted to Deane) Suicide of Ellen Louden, 28 April, 1906
IV - 13 Another Body Found Inspector W Parker, Ccriem Report (Submitted to deane): Drownign of J W Russell, 29 April, 1906
IV - 14 Infanticide? Sergeant DG Quinn Crime Report (Submitted to Deane): Re. Body of Child Found in Saskatchewan River, 14 May, 1905
Deane to Quinn, 15 May, 1905
Quinn, Crime Report (Submitted to Deane), 15 May, 1905
IV - 15 Alleged Murder at Seven Persons Sergeant W B Macleod, Telegram to Deane 8 November 1902
Extract from Medicine Hat Diary (Submitted to Deane) 8 November, 1902
Macleod to Deane, 10 November, 1902
Deane to Macleod, 11 November, 1902
Macleod to Deane, 8 November, 1902
E. Desertions
IV - 16 Four in a Month Deane, Monthly Report, April, 1904
Deane, Monthly Report, May 1904
Deane, Monthly Report, June 1904
Five Worlds Calgary Division 1906-1909
A. Death and Struggle in the Working Man's World
V - 1 "Premature Explosion" Deane, Monthly Report, May 1908
V - 2 "The Head Skidded Along the Rail" Staff Sergeant J J Wilson, Crime Report (Submitted to Deane): Death of Joseph Klosterman, 7 August, 1907
V - 3 Electrocution Staf Sergeant Wilson Crime Reports (Submitted to Deane): Death of Walter Ryder, 12 and 18 October 1907
V - 4 "Short in His Accounts" Deane, Monthly Report, March 1910
V - 5 Affray at Cochrane Dane, Crime Report: The Cochrane Affray, 30 September, 1906
V - 6 Strike at Canmore Deane, Monthly Report, May 1909
Constable R Basil MacLarty, Crime Report (Submitted to Deane): Intimidation of Mine Workers. 18 May, 1909
Deane to Staff Sergeant Wilson, 20 May 1909
Staff Sergeant Wilson, Crime Report (Submitted to Deane): Strike at Canmore, 21 May, 1909
Deane to Staff Sergeant Wilson, 21 May 1909
B. The Troubled World of Women
V - 7 The Female Prison Deane, Annual Report for 1907
V - 8 Destitution, Constable W V Bruce to Deane 9 March 1910
V - 9 " A True and Fatihful Wife" Constable KG Murison, Crime Report (Submitted to Deane): Suicide of Mrs Mary Findlay of Kansas, 23 October, 1907
V - 10 Miscarriage Deane, Monthly Report, March 1909
V - 11 "They All Misused Me, Three Holding Me Each Time" John S Davie, J P to Deane, 1 October, 1906
Deane to Davis, 2 October, 1906
Constable W Gilson, Crime Report (Submitted to Deane): M Burkholder, et al, Assaulting Jane Eakin, 6 October, 1906
C. The Problematic World of Nose Creek Brothels
V - 12 "A Necessary Evil" Deane to Commissioner 28 February, 1907
V - 13 Futility of Attempted Supression Deane, Annual Report, 1909
Deane Annual Report, 1910
V - 14 Quarantine Deane, Monthly Report, January, 1910
V - 15 Fatalities Deane, Annual Report,. 1910
Corpl. F J Basson, Report, Re Guard-Room and Common Jail, in Deane Annual Report, 1910
D. The Embattled World Within the Mounted Police
V -16 Good Work Deane, Annual Report, 1909
V - 17 Dunked in the Horse Trough Evidence in Assault Case Heard by Deane as Justice of the Peace, 14 August, 1907
V - 18 The Unfortunate Sergeatn Wilson Deane, Monthly Report, July 1909
Deane, Monthly Report, December, 1909
V - 19 Mutiny Calgary Daily News, 14 July, 1910
Assistant Commissioner J H McIllree to Commissioner 15 July, 1910
V -20 Deane's Insubordination Assistant Commissioner Z T Wood to Deane 26 October, 1910
Deane to Assistant Commissioner, 1 November, 1910
Deane to Assistant Commissioner, 9 November, 1910
Assistant Commissioner Wood to Deane, 24 October, 1910
Deane to Assistant Commissioner 276 October 1910
Commissioner A B Perry to Deane 1 November, 1910
Deane to Commissioner, 3 November 1910
Commissioner Perry to Deane 11 November, 1910
E. The Genteel World of the Elite
VI - 21 Prince Fushimi's Visit Deane to Commissioner Perry, 7 June 1907
Deane, Annual Report, 1907
V - 22 The Police Team at Banff Howard Douglas, Superintendant to the Rocky Mountain Park (Banff) to Deane 8 February, 1907
Deane to Douglas, 11 February 1907
Commissioner Perry to Deane 13 February 1907
Deane, Report of Proceedings of Investigation, 7 March 1907
Deane to Commissioner, 7 March, 1907
Killers, Fools, and Perverts Calgary Division, 1910-1914
A. Characterists of Growth
VI - 1 Good Times Bad Deane Annual Report, 1911
Deane, Monthly Report, May 1912
Deane, Annual Report, 1912
Deane, Monthly Report, October, 1913
Deane, Monthly Report, April, 1913
Deane, Monthly Report, December, 1913
VI - 2 The Stampede Deane, Monthly Report, September, 1912
Deane Annual Report, 1912
VI - 3 Horses vs The Auto Proceedings of Board of Officers (Consisting of Deane and Insp. A W Duffus) 12 December 1911
VI - 4 Calgary Power vs Stony Indians Const A J Barber, Crime Report (Submitted to Deane) 1 July, 1913
Deane to Const. Barber, 3 July, 1913
Const. Barber, Crime Report 9Submitted to Deane) 3 July, 1913
Deane to Commissioner, 4 July, 1913
Insp. G S Worsley to Deane, 6 July 1913
B. Violent Crime
VI - 5 Offences Against the Person 1911 and 1913
VI - 6 Fight Over Chickens Deane, Annual Report, 1913
VI - 7 Boxing Fatality Deane, Annual Report, 1913
VI - 8 Killed By Her Husband Deane, Annual Report, 1913
Insp. Worsley, Annual Report, 1914
VI - 9 Murder of Old Tucker Deane Annual Report, 1911
C. Decline of the West
VI - 10 "Abominable Fools" Deane to C Magrath, 30 September 1911
VI - 11 Boys in Trouble Deane Annual Report, 1911
VI - 12 Child Molestation Deane "Tampering with young children" [c. 1914]
Reply to Cosmopolite
"White Slavers Get Short Sentence in this City"
D. Absurdities of the Moral Reformers
VI - 13 Complaint About Liquor Offences and Sunday Baseball, The Rev. John Templeton to Deane, 27 July 1911
Deane to Templeton 7 August, 1911
VI - 14 The Lord's Day Act and the "Fancy Religions" Deane, "A Hallowe'en Prank" [c. 1914]
VI - 15 Fasting to Death Deane, Annual Report, 1913
VI - 16 Abolish the Bar, Madame Alberta Deane, Untitled Manuscript [c. 1914]
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