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The Canadian Western is The Western IN CANADA!, with a few characteristic differences. There tends to be more snow in Canada than in the western United States. And then there's the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who always get their man (or so they're supposed to do): if it doesn't have Mounties, it's not a Canadian Western.

Examples of Canadian Western include:

• The Academy Award nominated animated short Wild Life or Une Vie Sauvage is about an English Remittance Man who goes out to Alberta to become a rancher in the year 1909. It is subtitled "A Western" and the main character's body is found by a Mountie.
• The post-apocalyptic Western, Six Reasons Why takes place in a future Canada's desert landscape.
• The musical Rose-Marie. There are three film versions, all including considerable changes.
• The parody Dudley Do-Right is better known than most straight examples of the genre.
• Sergeant Preston of the Yukon and his sled dog/ally Yukon King. Radio and TV show.
• King of the Royal Mounted: comic strip, comic books, books, films.
• The Gary Cooper movie North West Mounted Police.
• Parodied in The Ren and Stimpy Show with "The Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen."
• The Grey Fox(1982)An elderly stage coach robber is released from prison in 1901—he decides to go to Canada and become a train robber.
• The Canadian TV series Bordertown is set in a town that straddles the US/Canadian border somewhere in the west. The border goes through the middle of the law enforcement office, with a corporal in the Northwest Mounted Police having his desk on the north side, and a U.S. Marshal having his on the south side.