SILENCED: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE FIGHT FOR EQUALITY IN THE RCMP
Bonnie’s book on the history of women in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police titled, Silenced: The Untold Story of the Fight for Equality in the RCMP, is available in print or e-book through Caitlin Press.
For more info visit Caitlin Press at http://caitlin-press.com/our-books/silenced/.
DR. BONNIE REILLY SCHMIDT
Chosen as one of the University of the Fraser Valley’s “50 Remarkable Alumni” in honour of the university’s 50th anniversary celebrations.
50 Remarkable Alumni: Bonnie Reilly Schmidt wrote the book on women’s experience in the RCMP
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WOMEN OF TROOP 17 (1974/75) ON THEIR
50TH ANNIVERSARY
On September 16, 1974, thirty-two women from across Canada were simultaneously sworn in as the first female members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Read the history of their groundbreaking role in changing Canada’s most iconic police force.
“It’s taken more than 100 years, but the Mounties have finally got their women.” Toronto Star, 1974
2019 BOOK REVIEWS
Read Bonnie’s recent review of Curt Petrovich’s book Blamed and Broken in the Ormsby Review published in BC BookLook magazine at
https://bcbooklook.com/2019/04/21/that-guy-who-was-killed-at-yvr-with-a-taser/#more-38873
EARLIER BOOK REVIEWS
Obstruction of Justice: The Search for Truth on Canada’s Highway of Tears by Ray Michalko
https://bcbooklook.com/2018/09/17/377-justice-for-highway-of-tears/
The Dog Lover Unit: Lessons in Courage from the World’s K9 Cops by Rachel Rose
https://bcbooklook.com/2018/05/30/going-to-the-dogs-4/
Refuge in the Black Deck: The Story of Ordinary Seaman Nicola Peffers
https://bcbooklook.com/2018/01/16/the-young-woman-and-the-sea/
Blood, Sweat, and Fear: The Story of Inspector Vance, Vancouver’s First Forensic Investigator by Eve Lazarus
https://bcbooklook.com/2017/11/08/inspector-vance-aka-j-f-c-b/
Aloha Wanderwell: The Border-Smashing, Record-Setting Life of the World’s Youngest Explorer by Christian Fink-Jensen and Randolph Eustace-Walden
Read the review at http://bcbooklook.com.
Other Book Reviews written by Bonnie
Read Bonnie’s latest review, Innocence on Trial: The Framing of Ivan Henry by Joan McEwen in BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly (April 2016) online at http://www.bcstudies.com/?q=book-reviews/innocence-trial-framing-ivan-henry.
Read Bonnie’s recent review of Eve Lazarus’s Cold Case Vancouver: The City’s Most Baffling Unsolved Murders in BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly (February 2016). http://www.bcstudies.com/?q=book-reviews/cold-case-vancouver-city%E2%80%99s-most-baffling-unsolved-murders.
Book review of Janet Merlo’s No One to Tell: Breaking My Silence on Life in the RCMP for BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly, No. 188 (Winter 2016). http://www.bcstudies.com/?q=book-reviews/no-one-tell-breaking-my-silence-life-rcmp.
Book review of Wayne Cope’s Vancouver Blue: A Life Against Crime for BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly (Fall 2015). http://www.bcstudies.com/?q=book-reviews/vancouver-blue-life-against-crime.
Reviews of Silenced: The Untold Story of the Fight for Equality in the RCMP
Interview with Robin Stickley and Squire Barnes on Vancouver’s Global BC Noon News Hour on Nov. 9, 2015. http://globalnews.ca/bc/program/noon-news-hour-bc.
Interview on September 14, 2015 with Jody Vance of City TV’s Breakfast Television, Vancouver. http://www.btvancouver.ca/videos/4484090581001/
Review by Matthew Claxton, “Langley Author Writes of Women’s Struggles in the RCMP.” The Langley Advance, Langley, BC. http://www.langleyadvance.com/entertainment/330167241.html.
Review by Rik Jesperson, “Author Details the Shadow Side of RCMP Culture,” The Local Weekly, Sunshine Coast, BC. thelocalweekly.ca-Author details shadow side of RCMP culture.
Review by Jan Degrass, “Words by Women Who Strive,” The Coast Reporter, Sunshine Coast, BC. http://://www.coastreporter.net/entertainment/arts-entertainment/words-by-women-who-strive-1.2061806.
“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Bonnie Reilly Schmidt, Ph.D. 