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                  .” Before long English was once more embroiled in controversy. In 1892 tension arose between the North-West Mounted Police stationed in Calgary and the municipal force, who in the view of the NWMP provided
                   
                  the area in 1874, the subsequent persistence of the nwmp in bringing the “wolfers” to trial demonstrated their resolve to administer justice in the North-West Territories
                  appeal to Crowfoot for his surrender by Lieutenant Governor Edgar Dewdney*, a 100-man NWMP search of the reserve, and the offer of a $50
                  ., soldier, NWMP officer, politician, and civil servant; b. 7 March 1850 at
                  HERBERT, NWMP officer and rancher; b. 14 Oct. 1855 in Ballywilliam, County Limerick (Republic of Ireland), son of Frederick Maunsell and Louise Herbert; m. 10 Aug. 1886
                  the NWMP could intercede, a Cree was killed and scalped. White Calf came into conflict with government authorities several times in the 1880s and
                  *. The intervention of the mounted police helped pacify the situation and laid the groundwork for resolution of a dispute over land ownership. Late in 1888 Wood was given the command of a division of NWMP
                  . When another NWMP superintendent, Lief Newry Fitzroy Crozier*, failed in early 1881 to induce Sitting Bull and his followers to
                  faith in the sun spirit. During the ceremonies a man was accused of assaulting John Craig, the farm instructor on an adjacent reserve. Anticipating a possible outbreak of violence, the NWMP fortified the
                  STEWART, CHARLES JAMES TOWNSHEND, NWMP officer and army officer; baptized 25 Dec. 1874 in Amherst, N.S., one of the twelve
                   
                  but by the strengthening of the NWMP detachment. Although Clarke consistently denied this charge, modern historians agree that it was probably well founded. The second rumour suggested that it was
                  1899. The following year Fitzgerald was given leave of absence, along with other members of the NWMP, to join the 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles, part of
                  Mounted Police (NWMP), led by Major Lief Newry Fitzroy Crozier*, arrived to
                  the North-West Mounted Police. In November 1874 he met with NWMP assistant commissioner James Farquharson
                  DENNY, Sir CECIL EDWARD, NWMP officer, Indian agent, author, and archivist; b. 14
                  .” In December 1874 Crowfoot first met James Farquharson Macleod*, assistant commissioner of the NWMP, and the two became
                  by treaty. He and his Young Dogs returned to the Cypress Hills in September and wintered with Big Bear and Little Pine. The commissioner of the NWMP, Acheson Gosford Irvine, feared violence against the
                  DEANE, RICHARD BURTON, (R)NWMP officer and author; b. 30 April 1848 in
                   
                  selling its horses, eating its dogs, and begging for food from the NWMP. Edgar Dewdney*, newly
                  Sioux and were saved only by the intervention of Walsh and Acheson Gosford Irvine, the assistant commissioner of the NWMP. On another occasion Walsh arrested three Indians for horse-stealing in the middle
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