Mounted Police

Mounted Police

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A BIT OF HISTORY

• Sir John A. MacDonald ( Prime Minister ) wanted to create a mounted police force to maintain law and order in the west and to encourage settlement.
• Some traders were trading whiskey, guns and ammunition with the Indian people for furs.
• Large numbers of bison were being killed and the Indian people feared that their way of life was changing.
• There was fighting between the Indian people and the whiskey traders and fur traders.
• An Act of Parliament was passed in 1873 to set up the North West Mounted Police force.