Aylesworth Bowen Perry
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Aylesworth Bowen Perry, CMG served as the sixth Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, from August 1, 1900, to March 31, 1923.
Aylesworth Bowen Perry
Group of nine taken in the square of the North-West Mounted Police Barracks, 1889 at Regina (Saskatchewan) Poundmaker, Big Bear, Big Bear's son, Father Andre, Father Conchin, Chief Stewart, Capt. Deane, Mr. Robertson, and the court interpreter
North-West Mounted Police (now RCMP) officers, Yukon, 1900, wearing the famous scarlet uniform that includes a flat-brimmed Stetson hat.
RCMP postcard circa 1920
Stetson
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Stetson is an American brand of hat manufactured by the John B. Stetson Company.
Aylesworth Bowen Perry
…related to marriage, formed two squadrons to fight in the First World War and approved changes to the uniform, with perhaps the formal adoption of the Stetson hat in 1901 being the most noted. Nevertheless, after the Prince Albert mail was held up near Humboldt, the first stage robbery ever accomplished in the…
Boss of the Plains hat
Boss of the Plains hat
Stetson's nine-acre factory in Philadelphia (1894)
Tom Mix, an early 20th-century movie star, wearing a ten-gallon hat