–1914 (Toronto and London, 1960). W. E. L. Smith, Albert College, 1857–1957 ([Belleville, 1957]). Turner, NWMP, 2: 292–93.

luxuries as flour and syrup at a “pretty 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

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

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

detested and was inconsistently enforced by the local constabulary and the NWMP. As a justice of the peace, Murdoch treated violators leniently, noting in his diary that to do otherwise would be

North-West Mounted Police built Fort Macleod (Alta) near by. NWMP surgeon Richard Barrington Nevitt saw her in 1875 and expressed amazement at seeing an Indian woman wearing a “Dolly Varden style” dress

, 1382. Can., Parl., Sessional papers, 1880–1906 (annual reports of the Dept. of Indian Affairs and of the NWMP). D. G. Mandelbaum, The Plains Cree: an ethnographic

had left 15 dead. Early in April non-aboriginal people from surrounding settlements sought refuge in Fort Pitt, which housed a NWMP detachment

 March near Duck Lake between the NWMP and Métis heralded the outbreak of rebellion. André, in his journal, describes the utter confusion in Prince Albert following this initial Métis success, but he was

with the region, in 1888 he accompanied the NWMP contingent returning from Wild Horse Creek, where it had been sent to prevent unrest among the Kutenai Indians from escalating into hostilities [see

Macpherson, taking with him – to Indian affairs – control of the NWMP; the lands survey fell under Burgess’s control when Russell was forced to retire because of ill health

Indian Affairs and the NWMP embarrassing. Still, his interest in the west made him an obvious candidate for the lieutenant governorship of the North-West Territories, into which office he was sworn on 7

Basin, near Lewistown (Mont.). In 1879 Goulet and Antoine, named Caillou, Morin guided Superintendent James Morrow Walsh* of the NWMP in his

Sun Dance (Thirst Dance) which preceded the council at Battleford, a NWMP unit under the command of Lief Newry Fitzroy Crozier

(Saskatoon, 1981). Turner, NWMP. J. E. Wickman, “James Bird, Jr.,” The mountain men and the fur trade of the far west, 5: 39–43. W. J. Betts, “From Red River to the Columbia

, du lac Supérieur au Pacifique (1659–1905) (nouv. éd., 3v., Saint-Boniface, Man., et Montréal, 1915), 2: 228–30, 269. Turner, NWMP. “The Christie family and H.B.C.,” Beaver, 3

in October. Lorne’s concerns comprehended Métis claims, Indian treaties, and the NWMP. He was a good listener and in late October he presented Macdonald with a long memorandum on what he had heard. He

permanent garrison at Esquimalt, B.C., as did the distribution of patronage. Defences made more sense at Vancouver, the terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway, but like his proposal to turn the NWMP into a

. . . .” Superintendent Lief Newry Fitzroy Crozier* of the NWMP rode to the forks to investigate and reported that nothing had come of the gathering

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