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Royal Canadian Mounted Police,

constabulary organized (1873) as the Northwest Mounted Police to bring law and order to the Canadian west. In 1920 the name was changed to the present title. The corps, which gained a romantic reputation for daring exploits and persistence in trailing criminals, originally numbered 300 men; they came to be known as Red Coats, Riders of the Plains, and, most popularly, Mounties. The force later absorbed the provincial police forces of all the territories and provinces except Ontario and Quebec and enforces all federal and provincial laws except in those provinces. It also takes part in selected international peacekeeping activites. The force numbers about 16,000.
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Settler Governmentality and Racializing Surveillance in Canada's North-West
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.
Louis A. Knafla and Jonathan Swainger, eds., Law and Societies in the Canadian Prairie West, 1670-1940
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