Mounted Police (NWMP), led by Major Lief Newry Fitzroy Crozier*, arrived to

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

. . . .” Superintendent Lief Newry Fitzroy Crozier* of the NWMP rode to the forks to

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

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 mounted infantry, Middleton’s ideas had little

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

killed a substantial part of their herd. Marsh developed further ties with the community when in 1887 he married Julia Shurtliff, widow of former NWMP superintendent Albert Shurtliff. So prominent did he

, NWMP officer, magistrate, judge, and politician; b. probably 25 Sept. 1836 in Drynoch, Isle of Skye

. When another NWMP superintendent, Lief Newry Fitzroy Crozier*, failed in early 1881 to induce Sitting Bull and his followers to

settlers took refuge in the NWMP fort, and their deserted homes were ransacked by the followers of Poundmaker [Pītikwahanapiwīyin*] and local

KUKATOSI-POKA (Starchild, sometimes referred to as Kucka-toosinah), Blood Indian and NWMP scout; b

selling its horses, eating its dogs, and begging for food from the NWMP. Edgar Dewdney*, newly

Saskatchewan River, swam the icy waters, and ran another 14 miles to the temporary safety of his mother’s lodge on the reserve. The initial attempts by the NWMP to recapture him were ineffectual, and not until

KENNEDY, GEORGE ALLAN, physician, NWMP surgeon, and office holder; b

.” In December 1874 Crowfoot first met James Farquharson Macleod*, assistant commissioner of the NWMP, and the two became

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

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

, militia officer, and NWMP officer; b. 13 Dec. 1844 in Shipton-on-Cherwell, England

because of its enforcement of the widely detested prohibition laws. Following the cessation of hostilities, the NWMP’s strength had been doubled from

Walsh* of the NWMP in his negotiations with Sitting Bull [Ta-tanka I-yotank*] and his band, who had taken refuge in the Wood Mountain