R.C.M.P.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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since 1920, a police force under the jurisdiction of the federal government of Canada, formerly the North West Mounted Police.

Quotations

1933

The delegation of twenty-five workers and farmers proceeds to the Parliament Buildings and are there met by a cordon of R.C.M.P.

1963

More than 200 RCMP, steel-helmeted and armed with rifles, lobbed tear gas shells to quell the rioting.