. In 1894 Constantine was chosen by NWMP commissioner Lawrence William Herchmer for special duty. Summoned to Ottawa in May, he was instructed to survey conditions in the Yukon. The government was

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

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

WALSH, JAMES MORROW, NWMP officer, businessman, and government official; b

by treaty. 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

provisional government. 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

NEALE, PERCY REGINALD, NWMP officer and convicted felon; b

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

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

he encountered Lawrence Clarke, who told him that the NWMP were sending a large number of men to Fort Carlton with the intention of arresting him and Riel. This report set off the first overt action of

CROZIER, LIEF (Leif) NEWRY FITZROY (he signed L. N. F. Crozier), militia officer and NWMP officer; b

Canadian history was being organized by NWMP superintendent Samuel Benfield Steele*. Concern in the Canadian and American press about the

. Violence such as this, and the abuses of the whisky trade, prompted the Canadian government to form the NWMP in 1873 [see Patrick

the NWMP could intercede, a Cree was killed and scalped. White Calf came into conflict with government authorities several times in the 1880s and

–1906 (annual reports of the Dept. of Indian Affairs and of the NWMP). D. G. Mandelbaum, The Plains Cree

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

the North-West Mounted Police. In November 1874 he met with NWMP assistant commissioner James Farquharson

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

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

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