On April 13, Big Bear's band surrounded Fort Pitt and issued an ultimatum for its
North-West Mounted Police to surrender.
Sitting Bull crossed the US-Canada border on May 7th, 1877, and was met by 34year-old
North-West Mounted Police Major James Morrow Walsh, commander of 90 men stationed at Fort Walsh in the Cypress Hills, now a Canadian national historic site.
The Mounted Police role at Estevan was similar to the one depicted in historian William Baker's excellent study of the Royal
North-West Mounted Police's (RNWMP) handling of the 1906 Lethbridge coal strike.
The authors introduce us to the political and historical reality of settling international boundaries, the role of the
North-West Mounted Police in ensuring the safety of thousands of prospectors, and the bickering which occurred at all political levels.
Steele of the
North-West Mounted Police was part of Northwest Field Force.
With the exception of the
North-West Mounted Police (NWMP), and its successors the Royal
North-West Mounted Police (RNWMP) and Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), relatively little published material exists on the history of Canadian public police and policing in general.
Samuel Benfield Steele stands out as one of the prominent figures in the
North-West Mounted Police and later as a military leader in the South African war.
When on March 19, 1885, the half-blood Metis leader Louis David Riel established the Provisional Government of Saskatchewan, an attempt by
North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) and Prince Albert Volunteers under Superintendent Leif Crazier to arrest him ended in an embarrassing rout at Duck Lake, 2.5 kilometres from Riel's self-proclaimed capital of Batoche, on March 26.
A scarce and very-nice condition Winchester Model 1876 Carbine issued to Canada's famed
North-West Mounted Police sold for a respectable $8,050, including premiums, at the Oct.
Policing indigenous peoples on two colonial frontiers: Australia's Mounted Police and Canada's
North-West Mounted Police. The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 43(2):356-375.
As a result, some very important essays on topics as varied as the origins of the Royal
North-West Mounted Police, Canada's water laws between 1870 and 1940, and the law and public nudity, are likely to become virtually lost in the thickets.
Anniversaries: 753BC: The city of Rome founded; 1809: Napoleon's army overtook and defeated the Austrians at the Battle of Landshut; 1816: Birth of novelist Charlotte Bronte; 1873; Canadian
North-West Mounted Police established; 1910: Death of American novelist Mark Twain; 1918: Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the legendary German fighter pilot known as the Red Baron, shot down by RAF fighter; 1923: The Birmingham Repertory Theatre's production of Cymbeline became the first Shakespeare play to be staged entirely in modern dress; 1946: Death of economist John Maynard Keynes.