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Furthermore, there's the [[UsefulNotes/TheMounties Royal Canadian Mounted Police]], always dressed in the famous Red Serge uniform, who [[AlwaysGetsHisMan always get their man]] (or so they're supposed to do). If it doesn't have Mounties, [[CanadaEh it's not a Canadian Western.]] In a way, the Mountie represents a transition phase in the idea of the frontier lawman: he's often isolated out in the field, but unlike TheSheriff, he is part of a larger formal organization with the central headquarters located all the way back in Canada's urban national capital of Ottawa, Ontario, and will occasionally make the trip there on administrative business and vice versa. Therefore, the Mountie represents a key difference between the Canadian Northern and the American Western: it is ''not'' a lawless wilderness with occasional pockets of civilization. There is, already, an overarching system keeping order. That's the mythology, anyway. But what happens when that system breaks down? What happens [[TheCavalryArrivesLate before]] the Mounties can [[TheCavalry show up]]? What happens when you're on the wrong side of their system? That's what these stories explore.

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Furthermore, there's the [[UsefulNotes/TheMounties Royal Canadian Mounted Police]], always dressed in the famous Red Serge uniform, who [[AlwaysGetsHisMan always get their man]] (or so they're supposed to do). If it doesn't have Mounties, [[CanadaEh [[MooseAndMapleSyrup it's not a Canadian Western.]] In a way, the Mountie represents a transition phase in the idea of the frontier lawman: he's often isolated out in the field, but unlike TheSheriff, he is part of a larger formal organization with the central headquarters located all the way back in Canada's urban national capital of Ottawa, Ontario, and will occasionally make the trip there on administrative business and vice versa. Therefore, the Mountie represents a key difference between the Canadian Northern and the American Western: it is ''not'' a lawless wilderness with occasional pockets of civilization. There is, already, an overarching system keeping order. That's the mythology, anyway. But what happens when that system breaks down? What happens [[TheCavalryArrivesLate before]] the Mounties can [[TheCavalry show up]]? What happens when you're on the wrong side of their system? That's what these stories explore.

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