, 1857–1957 ([Belleville, 1957]). Turner, NWMP
later that year, when the NWMP, led by Éphrem-A. Brisebois, arrived to establish Fort Calgary, he was on
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
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
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
–1906 (annual reports of the Dept. of Indian Affairs and of the NWMP). D. G. Mandelbaum, The Plains Cree
dead.
Early in April non-aboriginal people from surrounding settlements sought refuge in Fort Pitt, which housed a NWMP detachment under
request that he support the formation of a provisional government. André refused and an argument followed. The engagement on 26 March near Duck Lake between the NWMP and Métis heralded the outbreak of
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
– control of the NWMP; the lands survey fell under Burgess’s control when Russell was forced to retire because of ill health.
Burgess had become
Cameron’s protectionist leanings and his continued, inveterate campaign against the administration of Indian Affairs and the NWMP embarrassing. Still, his interest in the west made him an obvious candidate
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
the Sun Dance (Thirst Dance) which preceded the council at Battleford, a NWMP unit under the command of Lief Newry Fitzroy Crozier
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 noted that the sympathies toward 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 mounted infantry, Middleton’s ideas had little
. . . .” Superintendent Lief Newry Fitzroy Crozier* of the NWMP rode to the forks to
dysentery. During the 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