History Main / CanadianWestern

* ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085622/ The Grey Fox]]''.

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The CanadianWestern is TheWestern [-[[RecycledInSPACE IN CANADA!]]-], with a few characteristic differences. There tends to be more snow in Canada than in the western United States.

* The AcademyAward nominated animated short ''WesternAnimation/WildLifeOrUneVieSauvage'' is about an English RemittanceMan who goes out to Alberta to become a rancher in the year 1909. It is subtitled "A Western" and the main character's [[spoiler:body is found]] by a Mountie.

* ComicBook/LuckyLuke has "Les Daltons dans le blizzard", where they flee to Canada. Contains this immortal line by Joe on seeing a Mountie: "Hooray, a policeman!".

* The post-apocalyptic Western, ''Six Reasons Why'' takes place in a future Canada's desert landscape.
* The Gary Cooper movie ''North West Mounted Police''.

* ''Gunless'' (2010), a DeconstructiveParody in which a fugitive American {{Gunslinger}} (Paul Gross, ''DueSouth'''s Constable Fraser) arrives in a Canadian town and is bewildered to find that nobody owns a firearm. (Handguns being mostly illegal in western Canada at the time)
* ''The Mountie'' (2011), a lone officer imposes law and order on a Yukon outpost ruled by Latvian gangsters. ItMakesSenseInContext.

* The Canadian TV series ''Bordertown'' is set in a town that straddles the US/Canadian border somewhere in the west. The border goes through the middle of the law enforcement office, with a corporal in the Northwest Mounted Police having his desk on the north side, and a U.S. Marshal having his on the south side.

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* The Canadian TV series ''Series/{{Bordertown}}'' is set in a town that straddles the US/Canadian border somewhere in the west. The border goes through the middle of the law enforcement office, with a corporal in the Northwest Mounted Police having his desk on the north side, and a U.S. Marshal having his on the south side.

* ''Gunless'' (2010), a DeconstructiveParody in which a fugitive American {{Gunslinger}} (Paul Gross, ''DueSouth'''s Constable Fraser) arrives in a Canadian town and is bewildered to find that nobody owns a firearm.

* LuckyLuke has "Les Daltons dans le blizzard", where they flee to Canada. Contains this immortal line by Joe on seeing a Mountie: "Hooray, a policeman!".

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* The AcademyAward nominated animated short ''{{Wild Life or Une Vie Sauvage}}'' is about an English RemittanceMan who goes out to Alberta to become a rancher in the year 1909. It is subtitled "A Western" and the main character's [[spoiler:body is found]] by a Mountie.

Furthermore, then there's the 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 he is part of a larger formal organization with the central headquarters located all the way back in Canada's urban national capital in Ottawa, Ontario.

The CanadianWestern is TheWestern [-[[RecycledInSPACE IN CANADA!]]-], with a few characteristic differences. There tends to be more snow in Canada than in the western United States. And then there's the 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.]]

The CanadianWestern is TheWestern [-[[RecycledInSPACE IN CANADA!]]-], with a few characteristic differences. There tends to be more snow in Canada than in the western United States. And then there's the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 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.]]

* The Canadian TV series ''{{Bordertown}}'' is set in a town that straddles the US/Canadian border somewhere in the west. The border goes through the middle of the law enforcement office, with a corporal in the Northwest Mounted Police having his desk on the north side, and a U.S. Marshal having his on the south side.

The CanadianWestern is TheWestern [-[[RecycledInSPACE IN CANADA!]]-], with a few characteristic differences. There tends to be more snow in Canada than in the western United States. And then there's the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who [[AlwaysGetsHisMan always get their man]] (or so they're supposed to do): if it doesn't have Mounties, it's not a CanadianWestern.

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* The AcademyAward nominated animated short WildLifeOrUneVieSauvage is about an English RemittanceMan who goes out to Alberta to become a rancher in the year 1909. It is subtitled "A Western" and the main character's [[spoiler:body is found]] by a Mountie.

* The musical ''Rose-Marie''. There are three film versions, all including considerable changes.
* The parody ''Dudley Do-Right'' is better known than most straight examples of the genre.
* ''Sergeant Preston of the Yukon'' and his sled dog/ally Yukon King. Radio and TV show.
* ''King of the Royal Mounted'': comic strip, comic books, books, films.

* Parodied in ''TheRenAndStimpyShow'' with "The Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen."
* ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085622/ The Grey Fox]]''(1982)An elderly stage coach robber is released from prison in 1901--he decides to go to Canada and become a train robber.
* The Canadian TV series {{Series/Bordertown}} is set in a town that straddles the US/Canadian border somewhere in the west. The border goes through the middle of the law enforcement office, with a corporal in the Northwest Mounted Police having his desk on the north side, and a U.S. Marshal having his on the south side.

* The AcademyAward nominated animated short WildLifeOrUneVieSauvage is about an English RemittanceMan who goes out to Alberta to become a rancher in the year 1909. It is subtitled "A Western" and the main character's [[spoiler:body is found]] by a Mounty

* The AcademyAward nominated animated short WildLifeOrUneVieSauvage is about an Englishman who goes out to Alberta to become a rancher in the year 1909. It is subtitled "A Western" and the main character's [[spoiler:body is found]] by a Mounty

* The AcademyAward nominated animated short Wild LifeOrUneVieSauvage is about an Englishman who goes out to Alberta to become a rancher in the year 1909. It is subtitled "A Western" and the main character's [[spoiler:body is found]] by a Mounty

* The AcademyAward nominated animated short ''Wild Life'' is about an Englishman who goes out to Alberta to become a rancher in the year 1909. It is subtitled "A Western" and there are mounties.

* The Canadian TV series {{Bordertown}} is set in a town that straddles the US/Canadian border somewhere in the west. The border goes through the middle of the law enforcement office, with a corporal in the Northwest Mounted Police having his desk on the north side, and a U.S. Marshal having his on the south side.

* The musical ''Rose-Marie''. There are three film versions, all including considerable AdaptationDecay.