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
harsh winter of 1898–99 he brought an injured man from the NWMP outpost at the Five Finger Rapids to the hospital in Fort Selkirk, covering 30 miles of frozen, mountainous terrain
GEORGE ARTHUR, army, militia, and NWMP officer; b. 19 June 1841 in Roscommon (Republic of Ireland), eldest son of John French and Isabella
FRENCH, JOHN, soldier and NWMP officer; b. 1843 in Ireland, the youngest son of John French and Isabella
stiff price.” In July 1875 he settled permanently on Fish Creek at its junction with the Bow River (Alta), and later that year, when the NWMP, led by Éphrem-A
Basin, near Lewistown (Mont.). In 1879 Goulet and Antoine, named Caillou, Morin guided Superintendent James Morrow Walsh* of the NWMP in his
continuing unpopularity because of its enforcement of the widely detested prohibition laws.
Following the cessation of hostilities, the NWMP’s strength had
officer, and NWMP officer; b. 13 Dec. 1844 in Shipton-on-Cherwell, England, son of the Reverend William Macaulay Herchmer and Frances Turner; m. Eliza H. Rose, and they had two daughters
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
more concerned with security than with making concessions to the Indians over land. A provincial commission persuaded Isadore to hand Kapula over to them, and a detachment of the NWMP under Steele was
.”
In December 1874 Crowfoot first met James Farquharson Macleod*, assistant commissioner of the NWMP, and the two became
KENNEDY, GEORGE ALLAN, physician, NWMP surgeon, and office holder; b. 16
NWMP to recapture him were ineffectual, and not until he left the reserve a few days later was his trail picked up by Colebrook and a Métis tracker. They came upon him near Kinistino (Sask.) on 29
, and begging for food from the NWMP.
Edgar Dewdney*, newly appointed as Indian
KUKATOSI-POKA (Starchild, sometimes referred to as Kucka-toosinah), Blood Indian and NWMP scout; b. c
settlers took refuge in the NWMP fort, and their deserted homes were ransacked by the followers of Poundmaker [Pītikwahanapiwīyin*] and local
.
When another NWMP superintendent, Lief Newry Fitzroy Crozier*, failed in early 1881 to induce Sitting Bull and his followers to
MACLEOD, JAMES FARQUHARSON (his first names may have been James Alexander Farquharson), militia officer, lawyer, NWMP
1887 he married Julia Shurtliff, widow of former NWMP superintendent Albert Shurtliff. So prominent did he become in Canadian ranching that he would be elected the first president of the Western Stock
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