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The birth of the Royal North West Mounted Police
A historical narrative traces the July 8 1874 march of 274 mounted men from Fort Dufferin to western Canada. It covers the creation of the force under Macdonald, its mission to pacify the plains, the pursuit of whiskey traders, and the evolution into the Royal Canadian Mounted Police through 1950, with notable events including the Cypress Hills massacre, Sitting Bull, and the Gouzenko case shaping espionage fears.
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Dufferin
Manitoba
Emerson
Dominion of Canada
Rocky Mountains
North West Mounted Police
Northwest
Red River
Rocky ‘Mountains
Plains
United States
U.S. Cavalry
Canada
U.S
Northwest Territories
Fort Whoop-Up
Lethbridge
North West Mounted Rifles
John A. Macdonald
Imperial Cavalry
North West Territories
George A. French
Lower Fort Garry
Fort Dufferin
Virgin Territory
Bow
South Saskatchewan
Macleod
Fort Macleod
Assiniboine
Cypress Hills
Sitting Bull
Mounted
Fort Walsh
Mounted Police
U S
Louis Riel
U.S.A
Riel
Batoche
Frog Lake
Guy
RCMP
Regina
West
Iward VII
Royal North West Mounted Police
Dominion
Saskatchewan
Alberta
New Brunswick
Nova Scotia
Prince Edward Island
Newfoundland
British Columbia
Ottawa
Europe
Igo Ouzenko
Gouzenko
Sanada
Terry Ward
Edward Ward
Sgt
Ward
RNWMP
Dawson
Portage