Day Tripping: May 23

Riders, Renegades, and Rockers

By Jamie McCaffrey from Ottawa, Canada — RCMP Sunset Ceremony 2012, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25445332

Riding Tall

The Parliament of Canada established the North-West Mounted Police in 1873 to patrol the vast territories that were once the domain of the Hudson’s Bay Company. As the precursor to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police of today which was renamed in 1904, one hundred and fifty deputized officers patrolled an area that included all of Manitoba…