Born on a farm near Duffield, Alberta, near Stony Plain, on July of 1939, Charles Scheideman joined the RCMP in 1961, at age 21. He arrived in B.C. in the spring of 1962 and practised law enforcement at Nelson, Williams Lake, Lytton, Golden, Quesnel, Prince George and Courtenay, until his retirement in the fall of 1989. His first memoir, Policing the Fringe: The Curious Life of a Small-Town Mountie (Harbour, 2009), has been followed by Tragedy on Jackass Mountain: More Stories from a Small-Town Mountie (Harbour, 2011). He lives in Victoria.

Review of the author's work by BC Studies:
Policing the Fringe: The Curious Life of a Small-Town Mountie
Tragedy on Jackass Mountain: More Stories from a Small-town Mountie

BOOKS:

Policing the Fringe: The Curious Life of a Small-Town Mountie (Harbour, 2009)
Tragedy on Jackass Mountain: More Stories from a Small-Town Mountie (Harbour, 2011) 978-1-55017-550-9 $24.95

[BCBW 2011]