History Main / CanadianWestern

* ''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!".

[[caption-width-right:261:A Fistful of Loonies[[labelnote:*]] -- tm The Toronto Star on ''The Mountie'', though the Loonie didn't arrive until 1987, long after the OldWest [[/labelnote]]]]

* The Canadian TV series, ''The Series/Beachcombers'', is technically a Western in the sense that it is placed around the real town of Gibsons, British Columbia, Canada's western most province. The regular character, Const. John Constable is a Mountie of a more realistic kind: he wears a standard regular duty uniform, only wears his Red Serge dress uniform on special occasions, and doesn't ride a horse on duty and instead uses a standard police cruiser and patrol yacht on the water.

The Canadian Western, or "Northern" as it is properly called, is TheWestern [-[[RecycledInSPACE IN CANADA!]]-], with a few characteristic differences. There tends to be more snow in Canada and Alaska, the other setting for the Northern, than in the western United States.

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 and will occasionally make the trip there on administrative business and vice versa. In reality, while they are a common staple not every Northern has a Mountie as the central character with examples being ''Literature/WhiteFang'' and the 2016 film ''Searchers.''

* ''Film/{{Gunless}}'' (2010), a DeconstructiveParody in which a fugitive American {{Gunslinger}} (Paul Gross, ''Series/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 Canadian Western, or "Northern" as it is properly called, is TheWestern [-[[RecycledInSPACE IN CANADA!]]-], with a few characteristic differences. There tends to be more snow in Canada and Alaska, the other setting for the Northern, than in the western United States

The Canadian Western, or "Northern", is TheWestern [-[[RecycledInSPACE IN CANADA!]]-], with a few characteristic differences. There tends to be more snow in Canada and Alaska, the other setting for the Northern, than in the western United States

* ''Film/{{Balto}}'' is set in Alaska, making it an Alaskan example of a Northern, and centers around the 1925 serum run to Nome. Animals are a common feature in Northerns and dogs and dog sleds were popularized by Jack London with both playing a major role in this one.

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

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 and will occasionally make the trip there on administrative business and vice versa.

* Two noteworthy stories of the Northern genre are ''Literature/CallOfTheWild'' and ''Literature/WhiteFang'' by Creator/JackLondon, the former story even being set during one of the five most notable historical events to focus a Northern around: the Klondike Gold Rush. Another common feature of the Northern are animals with these two stories having been the one responsible for popularizing dogs and by extension dog sleds for the genre.

Despite popular belief, the Northern is not a DeadHorseTrope. It is still going strong with series such as ''Series/WhenCallsTheHeart'' and films such as ''Film/TheMountie'' keeping the genre going strong.

Now, almost a DeadHorseTrope, as the Canadian western all but disappeared when the traditional western faded in popularity in the 1960's.

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* ''The Challenge of the Yukon'' deals with the adventures of Sergeant Preston of the RCMP during the Yukon Gold Rush.
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* ''Sergeant Preston of the Yukon'' and his sled dog/ally Yukon King. Also a TV series in the 1950s.

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

* Arguably, many of the crime/horror novels by Creator/MichaelSlade have elements of the Canadian Western. They feature a Mountie crime-fighting unit (Special X), discuss the history of the Mounties' patrols in the Canadian West and the Yukon, and include many other elements of the Western.

* ''Sergeant Preston of the Yukon'' and his sled dog/ally Yukon King.
** Also a TV series in the 1950s.

[[caption-width-right:261:A Fistful of Loonies[[labelnote:*]] -- tm The Toronto Star on ''The Mountie'', but a case of DidNotDoTheResearch as the Loonie didn't arrive until 1987, long after the OldWest [[/labelnote]]]]

[[caption-width-right:261:A Fistful of Loonies[[labelnote:*]] -- tm The Toronto Star on ''The Mountie''[[/labelnote]]]]

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

* ''Comicstrip/KingOfTheRoyalMounted'' Lead character is a mountie who always catches his man

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

* 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.

[[caption-width-right:261:A Fistful of Loonies[[labelnote:*]] – tm The Toronto Star on ''The Mountie''[[/labelnote]]]]

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

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* The post-apocalyptic Western, ''Film/SixReasonsWhy'' takes place in a future Canada's desert landscape.

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* ''Comicstrip/KingOfTheRoyalMounted'' Lead character is a mountie who always catchers his man

* ''Comicstrip/KingoftheRoyalMounted''. Lead character is a mountie who always catchers his man

* ''King of the Royal Mounted''.