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The Mounties have been immortalized as symbols of Canadian culture in numerous Hollywood Northwesternmovies and television series, which often feature the image of the Mountie as square-jawed, stoic, and polite, yet with a steely determination and physical toughness that sometimes appears superhuman.
Come in to the Bears Den for Fellowship, Good Humour & Mystery DO YOU LOVE HAND CRAFTED AUTHENTIC MINIATURE KNITTING? Père Albert Lacombe, a beloved priest of the Oblat de Marie-Immaculée in Winnipeg, reported that the virulent Smallpox had originated with wagonloads of infected blankets from the U.S. military infirmary in St. Louis, which the First Nations people had found abandoned on the plains.American whiskey traders were pushing into the limitless unprotected land to build fortified trading posts offering guns and potent “rotgut” trade whiskey in return for furs, buffalo robes and horses from an already anguished, desperate native people.The biggest post was Fort Whoop-Up, a place of “drunken debauchery, fraud and cruelty.”And a place of ever-present violence: “Hundreds of Blackfoot Indians died as a result of the whisky trade, either killed in drunken quarrels, shot by whisky traders, frozen to death while drunk, or poisoned by the whisky itself.

Located in the far northwestern corner of Canada, the Yukon district began life as a sleepy fur-trading outpost of the Northwest Territories. The North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) was a Canadian police force, established in 1873 by the Prime Minister, Sir John Macdonald, to maintain order in the North-West Territories. For the 1940 film, see Early historians of the force stressed the epic nature of the expedition. The Mounties embodied their founding principle of Maintaining the Right. Radio series such as the The extensive historical archives of the North-West Mounted Police were combined with those of its successor, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), in 1920, although the early archives from 1873 to 1885 had been destroyed in a fire in 1897.This traditional, historical portrayal of the North-West Mounted Police influenced that of the RCMP, who used their predecessor's history to build their own status as a Canadian national symbol.During the early 1970s, professional historians began to reevaluate the force's history. Tab 1; Tab 2; Tab 3; Tab 4; Tab 5; Tab 6; Northwest Territories Forest Fire 2019 Update. The early recruits used When the force marched west in 1873, it brought twenty-five British Army 1868 pattern The force was also equipped with artillery, primarily to deter attacks from the First Nations.The mounted police initially deployed with 310 horses in 1873, both as mounts and as draught animals, but large numbers of these died on the march, and for much of the 1870s there were shortages of horses, impacting on the police's work.In the early 20th century, the development of the automobile began to make horses redundant for most police work, with the exception of crowd control.The mounted police also purchased various boats for work along Canada's coasts and rivers. The mounted police continued to face criticism after 1885, through a sequence of allegations in the popular press known as the "Herchmer scandals".Nonetheless, the force's reputation suffered from the controversy and complaints persisted that the force was oversized, excessively funded and staffed by political appointees.The events of the Klondike Gold Rush challenged this policy, as the force soon became essential to controlling the borders in the far north.After the 1904 elections, the new provincial governments of Alberta and After the Klondike Gold Rush, the mounted police continued to spread their network of posts across the far north.Extending the police's presence across the region was logistically challenging, requiring the creation of a network of new posts and the use of The First Nations in the north typically had some prior experience of Europeans, for example through contact with the Hudson's Bay Company, and there was little conflict between the police and these native communities, and few crimes committed.The mounted police initially began their wartime operations by focusing on the activities of immigrants and carrying out border security, but quickly widened their operations.The demands of the force's new security role, combined with its traditional policing responsibilities, soon overstretched the police's resources.Conscription was introduced in Canada during the final years of the war, which was accompanied by labour shortages, pressures for social change, and the rapid unionisation of the remaining workforce.Meanwhile, Commissioner Perry had put forward three options for the future of the mounted police: the force could be absorbed into the Canadian military; the remit of the force could be reduced to simply policing the far north; or the force could be assigned a much wider role in public and secret policing across the whole of Canada.Instead, in December 1918 Borden reorganized the federal Canadian security system by splitting the policing of the country geographically, with the mounted police running the western half and reporting to the The government remained deeply concerned about the Bolshevik threat, and in May 1919 the The events in Winnipeg highlighted the chaotic and ill-coordinated management of security issues across Canada, the artificial division between policing organizations in the west and east of the country, and the absence of a single senior leader for security work.In response, Prime Minister Borden amended the policing legislation in November 1919, bringing together the Royal North-West Mounted Police and the Dominion Police to form the When the North-West Mounted Police was formed in 1873, it initially had a rank structure of Although at first the force answered to the Prime Minister, in 1876 control was passed to the Secretary of State, an arrangement which was reinforced in the Mounted Police Act of 1879.The force was divided into various divisions, each typically commanded by a superintendent.Although the force was commanded by its commissioner, there was also an influential senior post of comptroller, created in 1880 in response to Macleod's financial mismanagement of the force.The NWMP was commanded by a relatively small team of commissioned officers, having an establishment of 25 officers in its early years, of whom around a quarter were The officer corps formed part of the social elite in Canada, and considered themselves to be much closer to the prestigious, regular military than to their equivalents in the local police forces.Commissioned officers were paid a respectable wage for the period; an inspector in 1886 earned an annual salary of $1,000.The first enlisted men to be recruited in 1873 came from a wide variety of backgrounds, but most had some military experience.The first contingent of police enlisted for a three-year term of service, but later recruits enlisted for five year periods, with the possibility of their purchasing an Sub-constables, initially the lowest rank in the force, were paid 75 cents a day in 1873, with a promise of 160 acres (65 ha) of land on completion of their enlistment, but the pay was cut by a third in 1878 and the land grants ceased.Early in the force's history, the police lived in buildings that they termed "forts", typically one-storey buildings constructed by the police themselves from Gradual improvement began to be made in the 1880s and 1890s; the later police barracks lost the title of "fort" and were professionally assembled, made from planed The first recruits to the force in 1873 were issued uniforms comprising scarlet Changes were made in 1876, introducing more elaborate uniforms for commissioned officers based on those worn by the A tension remained between uniforms which were perceived as smart, reflecting the force's military heritage, and practical uniforms which were suitable for the daily work of the police.The first police to deploy to the Yukon equipped themselves with specialised cold-weather clothing, and subsequent detachments were equipped with deer-skin The force's badge emerged around 1876 and became commonly used by the late 1890s.The mounted police were established to be an armed force, primarily due to the perceived threat from the First Nations on the prairies.In addition to rifles and carbines, the police also sometimes carried revolvers.