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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...
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  • 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...
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    The North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) played a significant role during the North-West Rebellion in Canada in 1885. The NWMP suffered early reverses and...
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    history of the North-West Mounted Police in the Canadian north describes the activities of the North-West Mounted Police in the North-West Territories at...
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    Canadian Mounted Police was formed in 1920 by the amalgamation of two separate federal police services: the Royal North-West Mounted Police (RNWMP), which...
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    Canadian Mounted Police (French: commissaire de la Gendarmerie royale du Canada) is the professional head of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)....
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  • Retrieved January 25, 2021. Jack L. Summers; Renee Chartrand. "History and Uniform of the North West Mounted Police, 1873–1904". Retrieved January 25, 2021....
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    revolvers were the official sidearm of both the British Army and the North-West Mounted Police, as well as being issued to many other Colonial units throughout...
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    the Dominion Police was merged with the Royal North-West Mounted Police to form the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as the new federal police force of Canada...
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  • Canadian Mounted Police, established 1873 as the North-West Mounted Police Calgary Police Service Mounted Unit, established 1978 Halifax Regional Police Mounted...
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  • Willow Cree and a fugitive. He is best known for evading the North-West Mounted Police for over nineteen months, his standoff against them, and his eventual...
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    Canadian North-West Mounted Police had a prominent role in popular media from the late 19th century onwards. The North-West Mounted Police (NWMP), founded...
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    Northwest Mounted Police. He tries to keep "peace and order" during the North-West Rebellion, helped by Sergeant Tim Clone. North West Mounted Police, by Cecil...
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    detachment of the North-West Mounted Police was stationed there to ensure the proper wares went to the proper traveler. The police also ensured that the...
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    James Macleod (category Royal Canadian Mounted Police commissioners)
    North-West Mounted Police officer, magistrate, judge, and politician in Alberta. He served as the second full Commissioner of the North-West Mounted Police...
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    Toronto, Ontario, in 1874. King joined the North-West Mounted Police and was part of the first contingent sent west to establish Fort Calgary in 1875. Constable...
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    the North-West Mounted Police in 1873 (renamed Royal North-West Mounted Police in 1904). In 1920, the Dominion Police, and the Royal Northwest Mounted Police...
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    Grace as young teacher Elizabeth Thatcher and Stephen Amell as North-West Mounted Police officer Wynn Delaney. In the television series Erin Krakow plays...
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    addition, unlike the American West, the settlement of the Canadian west was well organized, with the North-West Mounted Police providing law and order. Dominion...
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    Cypress Hills Massacre (category North-West Mounted Police)
    accelerate the recruitment and deployment of the newly formed North-West Mounted Police. The incident began in the spring of 1873 when a small party of...
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    road network with the Arctic Ocean. The highway is named for North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) officer William Dempster, who earned renown for discovering...
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    from 1917 to 1932. The APP was formed as a result of the Royal North-West Mounted Police (RNWMP) leaving the prairie provinces during the First World War...
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    Fort Macleod (category North-West Mounted Police forts)
    North-West Mounted Police barracks (Fort Macleod, built 1874) it had grown around. The fort was named in honour of the then Commissioner of the North-West...
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    Canary (1939) with Bob Hope, The Women (1939) with Joan Crawford, North West Mounted Police (1940) with Gary Cooper, Reap the Wild Wind (1942) with John Wayne...
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    Acheson Irvine (category Royal Canadian Mounted Police commissioners)
    (December 7, 1837 – January 8, 1916) served as Commissioner of the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) from November 1, 1880, to March 31, 1886. Irvine was born...
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    impress indigenous peoples. The modern Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the North-West Mounted Police's descendant, employs ceremonial, though functional,...
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    following is a list of firearms used by police forces in Canada. The vast majority of firearms used by Canadian police are semi-automatic. Beretta Px4 Storm...
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  • Clarkson to its star, Andrew Walker. Walker plays a disgraced North-West Mounted Police officer dispatched in 1894 to survey the Yukon for a new garrison...
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    Conrad O'Brien-ffrench (category Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers)
    The Queen's Lancers in World War I, and Mountie for the Royal North-West Mounted Police. He was an accomplished artist, linguist, mountaineer, skier and...
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  • (d.1915), a North-West Mounted Police inspector in Dawson during the Klondike Gold Rush. He was later the commissioner of the NWMP. North America portal...
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