RCMP Museum ~ Musée de la GRC
Origins of the RCMP

The Great Lone Land
The NW Purchase
Sir John A and the NWMP
Establishment of the NWMP
The March West
The American Sioux
Settlement of the West
Policing the Railway
Servants of the Public
The NW Rebellion
Free Land
The Klondike Gold Rush
North to Arctic Shores
The RCMP
Bibliography

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Bibliography

The information presented in this essay, The Origins of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, comes from the following sources:

  • Atkin, R. Maintain the Right, New York, 1973.
  • Dempsey, H.A. ed. Men in Scarlet, Calgary, 1974.
  • Horrall, S.W. The Pictorial History of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Toronto, 1973.
  • Macleod, R.C. The N.W.M.P. and Law Enforcement 7873-1905, Toronto, 1976.
  • Turner, J.P. The North-West Mounted Police 1873-1893, 2 vols., Ottawa, 1950.
  • Steele, S.B. Forty Years in Canada, Toronto, 1972.


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