North-West Mounted Police
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The North-West Mounted Police was a Canadian paramilitary police force, established in 1873, to maintain order in the new Canadian North-West Territories following the 1870 transfer of Rupert's Land a
North-West Mounted Police officers, Fort Walsh, 1878; Commissioner James Macleod sat centre
Mounted police preparing to leave Fort Dufferin in 1874, depicted by Henri Julien
Mounted police in Dead Horse Valley in 1874, depicted by Henri Julien
Mounted police and members of the Blackfoot First Nation at Fort Calgary, 1878
Sam Steele
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Major-general Sir Samuel Benfield Steele was a Canadian soldier and policeman. He was an officer of the North-West Mounted Police, head of the Yukon detachment during the Klondike Gold Rush, and comma
North-West Mounted Police
…control, hence the pass system. Construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway Donald Smith driving the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1885; Sam Steele of the mounted police stands third right from Smith The Canadian government began the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway between eastern…
Col Steele commanding Strathcona's Horse