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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a federal police force organized in 1873 to bring law and order to the Northwest, the name after 1904 being the Royal North West Mounted Police and after 1920 the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Quotations
1881
Recruits for the N.W.M.P. are being brought in by way of Winnipeg.
1963
In 1874 Rev. John McDougall was sent to explain to the chief why the NWMP had come to the West.