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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a member of the Royal Canadian (formerly, North West) Mounted Police.
See: Mounted Policeman
Quotations
1900
The task of introducing British law and order into this remote corner of the empire was carried to completion without bloodletting, the scarlet coats looking too much like business for the wolfers to show fight.