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The Canadian Western, or "Northern" as it is properly called,note sometimes known as a "Northwestern", as they are often set in western or northwestern Canada is The Western 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. As such, instead of the deserts and rock formations of the American Southwest, the iconic imagery associated with the Canadian Western is that of snow-covered boreal forests and mountain peaks under a Wintry Auroral Sky. Furthermore, there's the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, always dressed in the famous Red Serge uniform, who always get their man (or so they're supposed to do). If it doesn't have Mounties, 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 The Sheriff, 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 before the Mounties can show up? What happens when you're on the wrong side of their system? That's what these stories explore. In reality, while they are a common staple, not every Northern has a Mountie as the central character, with examples being White Fang and the 2016 film Searchers. Another common feature is the Remittance Man. Depending when it's set, this may also be the natural environment of the Prospector driving his Sled Dogs Through the Snow (who may be heroic dogs in their own right), as western Canada had two Gold Rushes in the 19th century - one in British Columbia in 1858, and another further north in the Yukon Territory, in 1898. This latter is considered the last of the major Gold Rushes. If it overlaps with the Weird West, expect to see the environment portrayed as Grim Up North, where Evil Is Deathly Cold and Polar Madness is an ever-present threat. Despite popular belief, the Northern is not a Dead Horse Trope. It is still going strong with series such as When Calls the Heart and films such as The Mountie keeping the genre alive. Compare Nordic Noir, another traditionally-American genre transposed into a more northerly climate. |
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Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning, a prequel to the first two Ginger Snaps films, is set at a nineteenth-century Canadian fur-trapping community being besieged by werewolves. | |
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Death Hunt with Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin is loosely based on the real-life manhunt for Albert Johnson in the Yukon Territory in 1931. | |
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Gunless (2010), a Deconstructive Parody in which a fugitive American Gunslinger (Paul Gross, Due South's Constable Fraser) arrives in a Canadian town and is bewildered to find that nobody owns a firearm. (Handguns were mostly illegal in western Canada at the time.) | |
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The Grey Fox, based on the true story of Bill Miner, an American stagecoach robber who staged Canada's first train robbery. | |
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Where the North Begins, the first movie to feature Rin Tin Tin in a starring role, takes place in the snowy Canadian wilderness with a French-Canadian fur trapper as the human lead. | |
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The post-apocalyptic Western, Six Reasons Why takes place in a future Canada's desert landscape. | |
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"The Thing That Walked On The Wind", a Cthulhu Mythos short story by August Derleth, has a Mountie in northern Canada running afoul of sinister cult practices among the native people in his jurisdiction. Like a lot of frontier literature, it's quite racist. | |
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The parody Dudley Do-Right is better known than most straight examples of the genre. | |
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The Yukon Trail, a game from the same developers as the better-known Oregon Trail, has the player in the role of prospector during the Klondike Gold Rush. | |
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DuckTales (2017) ventures into this genre with the episode "The Golden Lagoon of White Agony Plains!", with flashbacks to Scrooge in what appears to be the Gold Rush-era Yukon, as a Mythology Gag reference to The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck. He runs into a living mammoth and befriends a grizzly, all in search of a lake of liquid gold. | |
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The Mountie (2011), a lone officer imposes law and order on a Yukon outpost ruled by Latvian gangsters. It Makes Sense in Context. | |
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Jonah Hex (2005), an issue of the series finds Jonah Hex in the Northwest Territories tracking down a bounty and running afoul of some Mounties who don't take kindly to an American Bounty Hunter roaming their country. | |
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Black Tide Rising: Combat Pragmatist Cat Cavanaugh, Sergeant Rock Jim Kolar, and Genius Bruiser Badass Native Rob George from the short story "Chase the Sunset" liberate trapped residents of the Canadian prairies from the threat of lingering zombies and a serial rapist. | |
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Sly 2: Band of Thieves has a couple of levels that take part in Canada, and feature an ambient Western guitar tune. The villain of the chapter is also an actual lumber baron from the 19th century. | |
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Parodied in The Ren & Stimpy Show with "The Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen." | |
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The Canadian TV series, The Beachcombers, is technically a Western in the sense that it is placed around the real town of Gibsons, British Columbia, Canada's westernmost 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. | |
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Lucky Luke has "Les Daltons dans le blizzard", where they flee to Canada. Contains this immortal line by Joe on seeing a Mountienote because it means they've crossed the border where Luke (in theory) can't catch them: | |
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Much of The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck is set in the Yukon, with Superintendent Steele of the RCMP making a memorable appearance by attempting to arrest Scrooge. | |
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Murdoch Mysteries sometimes takes the lead character out of the city: In "Anything You Can Do...", Murdoch travels to rural British Columbia while tracking down a murderer with a North West Mounted Police officer (who turns out to be his half-brother.) "Murdoch of the Klondike" has Murdoch take a leave of absence to become a prospector in the Canadian Gold Rush, inevitably finding a murder and working with Sam Steele of the NWMP. |
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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. | |
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Due South is this for part of the pilot, before Fraser ends up in Chicago. | |
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Togo, based on the same event as Balto. | |
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The Great Weird North is the Canadian sourcebook for Deadlands, expanding the Weird West setting into Canada and allowing PCs to be Mounties, trappers and other typically Canadian archetypes. | |
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When Calls the Heart is set in a town in the Canadian northwest (likely Alberta). Mounties, coal miners, outlaws, and schoolmarms drive the show's many plots. | |
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The short story The Monster of Partridge Creek also combines the Canadian Western with the Weird West, with a Ceratosaurus roaming the Yukon. | |
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King of the Royal Mounted Lead character is a Mountie who always catches his man. | |
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Two noteworthy stories of the Northern genre are The Call of the Wild and White Fang by Jack London, 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. | |
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