Before My Memory Fades: Remembering My Time in the RCMP

This fascinating memoir recounts Timothy Ian Mitchell's boyhood dream of becoming a RCMP officer and the first five years of his service as a Mountie on the Canadian Prairies. Deeply honest, often moving, and intermittently funny, the anecdotes at the core of this book vividly detail Mitchell's experiences and encounters with other members of the Force, perpetrators and victims of crime, and a variety of other people and places that impacted his early career and influenced his entire life. Whether he was enforcing traffic regulations, investigating a robbery, or marching on Red Serge duty, Mitchell was honoured and grateful to be recognized as a Canadian Mountie.

Author: Timothy Ian Mitchell
Publisher: FriesenPress
Published: 01/24/2024
Pages: 228
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d
ISBN: 9781039188549

About the Author
Mitchell, Timothy Ian: - Sergeant T.I. (Tim) Mitchell is a retired 32-year Veteran of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He has compiled these wonderful police stories of his personal experiences. It all begins with an introduction to his background as a young man who had always dreamed of becoming a Canadian Mountie.

It's a journey written strictly from the many memories of the challenges he faced during his career with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

His experience had taken him to five different provinces while performing an array of duties. Some of the situations had very surprising outcomes. With a compilation of over fifty different incidents and situations that provide the reader with a true sense of what it would be like to live the life of a Mountie.

It includes all the elements of danger, stress, split second decision making, and situations from the unusual to the bizarre and everything in between.

It's told through Tim Mitchell's eyes describing his feelings, his fears, and his human reactions.

The book provides an insight into what every front-line Mountie must deal with on a daily basis. It is a dedicated monument to the spirit and duty carried out daily by those in the Force that continue to "Maintain the Right". Mounties are brothers and sisters, co-workers, and friends doing their very best to proudly serve Canada.