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since 1920, a police force under the jurisdiction of the federal government of Canada, formerly the North West Mounted Police.
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1924
If it is true, as Kipling says, that "single men in barracks don't grow into plaster saints," it is doubly true of the same in lonely detachment shacks of the Royal Mounted scattered about the Arctic foreshore.