Women in the RCMP

Historian Bonnie Reilly Schmidt discusses women and their experience as police officers in the RCMP.

Interview by Mark Reid

 — Posted June 4, 2010

In 2010, historian Bonnie Reilly Schmidt of Simon Fraser University spoke with editor-in-chief Mark Reid while attending the annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Scientists at Concordia University in Montreal. Schmidt was there to give a presentation on women and their experience as police officers in the RCMP.

Photo credit: Simon Fraser University/CC

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