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
Sun Dance (Thirst Dance) which preceded the council at Battleford, a NWMP unit under the command of Lief Newry Fitzroy Crozier
. . . .” Superintendent Lief Newry Fitzroy Crozier* of the NWMP rode to the forks to investigate and reported that nothing had come of the gathering
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
warrior assaulted him and took some provisions. When a detachment of the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP), led by Major Lief Newry Fitzroy
had left 15 dead.
Early in April non-aboriginal people from surrounding settlements sought refuge in Fort Pitt, which housed a NWMP detachment
interrupted by two NWMP scouts and one civilian galloping through the camp; they had been sent out the previous day by Inspector Dickens to look for Big Bear’s men. Interpreting their presence as an attack, the
North-West Mounted Police. In November 1874 he met with NWMP assistant commissioner James Farquharson
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
NEALE, PERCY REGINALD, NWMP officer and convicted felon; b. 1851 in England; m. Sarah Champness; d. 1 Feb
. He fled to Prince Albert during the battle of Duck Lake on 26 March but was promptly arrested and jailed by the NWMP. His wife and young children sought refuge with the priests at Batoche. In
the NWMP could intercede, a Cree was killed and scalped.
White Calf came into conflict with government authorities several times in the 1880s and was
. 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 police and
the Canadian government to form the NWMP in 1873 [see Patrick Robertson-Ross*]. The first contingent of police travelled west
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
, Dumont ransacked a store at Duck Lake on 25 March. He then proceeded west and the next day encountered by chance a force commanded by NWMP Superintendent Lief Newry Fitzroy
Canadian history was being organized by NWMP superintendent Samuel Benfield Steele*. Concern in the Canadian and American press about the
MacKay, The square mile: merchant princes of Montreal (Vancouver, 1987). R. C. Macleod, The NWMP and law enforcement, 1873–1905 (Toronto, 1976). Albro Martin, James
STEELE, Sir SAMUEL BENFIELD, NWMP officer and army officer; b. 5 Jan. 1848 in Medonte Township, Upper Canada, son of