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North-West Mounted Police officers, Fort Walsh, 1878; Commissioner James Macleod sat centre 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 ...
- 1920
- As per operations jurisdiction
- May 23, 1873
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- 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 is a 1940 American epic north-western film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Gary Cooper and Madeleine Carroll.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 ...
- $2.5 million (U.S. and Canada rentals)
- Victor Young
- Cecil B. DeMille
- Paramount Pictures
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Dec 10, 2019 · The Silver Screen. The Mounted Police were truly immortalized by the Hollywood movie makers. The first film was produced in 1910, The Riders of the Plains.It was followed by Cameron of the Mounted, The Trail of '98, Eskimo, Rose Marie (Nelson Eddie and Jeannette McDonald), Susannah of the Mounties (with Shirley Temple) and North West Mounted Police (Gary Cooper), to name just a few.
Feb 7, 2006 · The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is Canada’s national police force – providing an array of services from municipal policing to national security intelligence gathering. The "Mounties" have a long and proud history dating back to Confederation and the opening of the Canadian West. Despite a series of scandals in recent decades, the ...
In 1904, King Edward VII awarded the title of Royal to the North-West Mounted Police, officially creating the Royal North-West Mounted Police (RNWMP). This was to recognize its 30-year policing role in the Northwest and Yukon Territories. Soon after, the Royal North-West Mounted Police began to expand operations into the Canadian Arctic.
In 1873, the Northwest Mounted Police was formed to help police the Dominion of Canada’s new laws, prevent invasion, and help settle the new land in the west. We’ll take a virtual walk through the RCMP Heritage Centre to learn about the formation of the force, their journey west, and their role in the formation of Canada. Learning Outcomes:
