Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-07
WESTERN CANADA MOURNs
PASSING OF MOUNTED MEN
Name OF Royal Northwest Police Is
Interviewer With History of
Country's Development.
MANY THRILLING TRADITIONS
Created by Act OF Parliament
Famous "Scarlct Riders OF the
Plains" Wcro Eventually Merged
With Other Organizations.

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PIE or western Canada view AZ trag-
OF the Royal Nor tfHvr Mounted Poo
lice--a name that Is interviewer with
the history Of the Canadian West as
and crowned with tho thrilling tradi-
lions Of one of the grentest bodies of
censtabulary in the world. BY an act
Riders Of the plains" have been merged
with the Dominion Police under the
title OF the Royal Canadian Mounted
Police. Sic transit gloria.
with human nature the same yeSter-
day, today nnd forever. why was the
settlement of the Canadian West unat-
, the frontier in the United States" Tho
answer is the r. y. w. NJ. y.
Why were there no counterparts in
Western Canada of Abilene. Dodge City,
| Hays City TobSione, Deadwood and
the other classic Typo towns of tho
American frontier, whose early history
in whisky ana blood: The II. y. w.
NJ. p.
Some or the wild Ones.
WHY had Western Canada no bad men
Wyatt carp. Doc. Holiday, Billy the
Kid Luke Shor, and the other heroes
OF border romance South of the line?
why had it no bandits and train rob
bcrs like Uic James Boys, the Young
crs and the Daltons? The Il. y. ". N.
Z.
across the American prairies, they
killed man every morning before
breakfast in the construction camps.
There were enough men murdered to
den. Why were there no such violence
and riot when the Canadian Pacific
n a us fs sleet hsnwn ag gHs the
NJ r.
what kept the Yukon quiet and law
anidins in the days Of The oid gold
Alaska. the mining camps were as law
less. as those Of old foriy-ninc days
IN California;:
Carried Law, into Camps.
Organized in 1873. the Royal North
west Mounted Police carried law into
the West when the plains were covered
with buffaloes and Indians, before the
Canadian Pacific Railway began bring
ing settlers 10 the prairics. From the
Great Lakes 10 the Rockies and from
The international boundary 10 the Arc
tic ocean, they enforced the law anu
made the settlement and development
Of Western Canada one long peaceful
progress. Canadian frontier towns
were as orderly as any village of On
tario or New England.
For four years the Royal Northwest
Mounted Police held i'll check Sitting
sought sanctuary on Canadian. soil. aft
err the Custer massacre OH the Little
Dig Horn. They did their part in say,
reS They faed to se, ,%s
as a Unit in the recent world conflict
but the famous Hcll-for- Leather Fort
Carrys, who charged into the blue
at Cambrai, the Strathcona Horse. the
Royal Canadian Drnsoons and the Ca
madam Mounted Rifles were filled with
rankers who had worn the red tunic of
the old corps.
The Royal Northwest Mounted Po-
lice have not been empire builders. but
they smoothed the road for empire and
kept Il smooth. Western Canada is
Western Canada today largely because
OF them. Though the old name under
which they won fame and glory is now
numbered with forgotten yesterdays.
il will live forever in the history of
tho Canadian West az a symbol Of ef
iciency. loyalty, h"rois!n and law fear
leSSly enforced.