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The Dominion of Canada purchased the Northwest Territory from Hudson Bay Company. Prime Minister John A. MacDonald decided a Federal Police
Force was needed to establish governing authority in this huge territory. Reports of American Whiskey traders, especially those at Fort Whoop-Up, and the events that culminated the Cypress Hills Massacre was a big concern to bring law and order to this region. Planning began in the late 1800s. Creating a permanent force to safeguard Canada’s borders, posts and land.

Army officers were first sent out of Manitoba to survey this vast area and found nobody was protecting the inhabitants in the land. Americans were crossing the border illegally, whiskey traders and criminals were taking advantage of the lawlessness.

The area just opened up for settlement. So the Army officers in 1873 recommended that the territory should use mounted riflemen, a force of 100 - 150 men, to maintain law and order, in the Northwest Territory. In 1873, the first 150 recruits for the Northwest Mounted Police were sent west to Manitoba.

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