The Mounties are 95 Years Old

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police very nearly didn’t exist. They began life in the 19th century as the North West Mounted Police, but in 1896, the new Prime Minister, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, decided that the NWMP should be disbanded. However, over in the west, the NWMP were becoming incredibly useful containing the excesses of the […]

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