WALKER, JAMES, farmer, militia officer, NWMP officer, ranch manager, businessman, and army officer; b. 14 April 1846 near

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

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

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

which I held but a few hours past of being able to convince the Indians of their errors and folly.” Talks were interrupted by two NWMP scouts and one civilian galloping through the camp; they had been

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

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

GEORGE ARTHUR, army, militia, and NWMP officer; b. 19

DENNY, Sir CECIL EDWARD, NWMP officer, Indian agent, author, and archivist; b. 14

DEANE, RICHARD BURTON, (R)NWMP officer and author; b. 30 April 1848 in

*. The intervention of the mounted police helped pacify the situation and laid the groundwork for resolution of a dispute over land ownership. Late in 1888 Wood was given the command of a division of NWMP

STEWART, CHARLES JAMES TOWNSHEND, NWMP officer and army officer; baptized 25 Dec. 1874 in Amherst, N.S., one of the twelve

STEELE, Sir SAMUEL BENFIELD, NWMP officer and army officer; b

NWMP and law enforcement, 1873–1905 (Toronto, 1976). Albro Martin, James

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

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

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

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

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

.” Before long English was once more embroiled in controversy. In 1892 tension arose between the North-West Mounted Police stationed in Calgary and the municipal force, who in the view of the NWMP provided