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The North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) was a Canadian paramilitary police force, established in 1873, to maintain order in the new Canadian North-West Territories (NWT) following the 1870 transfer of Rupert's Land and North-Western Territory to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, the Red River Rebellion and in response to lawlessness ...
- Origins
- First Recruits
- The March West
- First Nations Relations
- North-West Resistance
- Law and Order
- Klondike and Arctic Expansion
- RCMP Established
On 23 May 1873, the Canadian Parliament passed an act to establish “a Mounted Police Force for the North-West Territories.” Formerly known as Rupert’s Land, the domain of the Hudson’s Bay Company, the North-West Territories had been purchased by Canada in 1870. It included all of present-day Manitoba, and parts of Saskatchewan, Alberta and Canada’s...
The North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) was modelled after the Royal Irish Constabulary. Macdonald initially called it the North-West Mounted Rifles, but changed Rifles to Police to avoid arousing American suspicions. Reports from the West had stressed the symbolic importance of the traditional British army uniform among First Nations, so the NWMP ado...
On 8 July 1874, 300 officers and men of the NWMP set out from Dufferin, Manitoba, on a gruelling, two-month, 1,300-kilometre march across untracked prairie. Men and horses endured extreme weather conditions, hunger, foul water, illness, and hordes of mosquitoes and black flies before reaching La Roche Percee in southern Saskatchewan. There, the con...
For a decade and a half, the NWMP concentrated on building close relations with First Nations – ones that were complex, and not always beneficial to Indigenous people. The police forged diplomatic links with the Blackfoot Confederacy, which included a friendship between James Macleod and Isapo-muxika. Such relations allowed the NWMP to play an esse...
In the early 1880s, unrest smoldered among the Métis and on reserves due to the disappearance of the bison herds, crop failures, the overbearing manner of Canadian Pacific Railway surveyors, and disenchantment with the government in Ottawa. NWMP strength was increased to 500 men, but that was insufficient for growing responsibilities, which now inc...
After the resistance, the government increased the NWMP to 1,000 men and appointed Commissioner Lawrence Herchmerto modernize the force. Herchmer improved training and enhanced methods of crime prevention, therefore preparing the police to cope with the coming waves of settlers. The police performed a wide array of civic duties, from serving as pos...
Inspector Charles Constantine had already established an NWMP post near the Yukon community of Forty Mile, when, in 1896, news of a major gold strike on the Klondike River touched off a stampede of fortune seekers to the North. The NWMP quickly set up checkpoints on the routes to Dawson City, the gold rush capital. Their strict enforcement of regul...
During the First World War, members of the RNWMP were exempted from military service because they were needed on the home front to discourage acts of enemy sabotage. In 1920, the RNWMP merged with the Dominion Police to form the Royal Canadian Mounted Police(RCMP).
North West Mounted Police: Directed by Cecil B. DeMille. With Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Paulette Goddard, Preston Foster. In 1885, a Texas Ranger travels to Canada to arrest a trapper who's wanted for murder and who's stirring up the Natives in a rebellion against the Canadian government.
- (1.8K)
- Drama, Romance, Western
- Cecil B. DeMille
- 1940-10-22
Written by Alan Le May, Jesse Lasky Jr., and C. Gardner Sullivan, and based on the 1938 novel The Royal Canadian Mounted Police by R. C. Fetherstonhaugh, the film is about a Texas Ranger who joins forces with the North-West Mounted Police to put down a rebellion in the north-west prairies of Canada.
Learn about the early development of Canada's celebrated national police force, which began as the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP), through the historic places associated with this organization created to maintain law and order in Canada's West.
Dec 10, 2019 · The North West Mounted Police enthralled a nation and the world. The symbol of a police officer clad in red serge, riding a horse to "always get his man", is one of Canada's most recognizable symbols. The NWMP, and now the RCMP, stand for honesty, courage, impartiality, tenacity and a job well done. These qualities date back to the March West ...
I was one of the first to join the North West Mounted Police, back in 1873. I stayed with the Mounted Police for 40 years. By the time I retired, I had served across Canada, even in the Yukon. Do I have stories to tell! The places I have seen, and the people that I have met!
