Memorable Manitobans: Stanley W. Horrall

Police officer, historian.

He was born in England, coming to Canada in 1954 as a teenager. He joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1956 as a constable, serving in Ontario and Alberta. In 1959, he left the service to attend university, studying history at Carleton University, the University of Toronto, and University College Dublin. He was appointed historian with the RCMP in 1968. He has contributed articles to such journals as the Canadian Historical Review and Ontario History and is the author of the Pictorial History of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

His articles for the Manitoba Historical Society:

A Policemans Lot is not a Happy One: The Mounted Police and Prohibition in the North-West Territories
MHS Transactions, Series 3, Number 30, 1973-74 Season

Page revised: 13 October 2008

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