1885: North West Mounted Police

The NWMP arrived in Qu’Appelle a week after Louis Riel established his provisional government.

R. Bruce Urmston (active 1885)
Mounted Police Headquarters at Fort Qu’Appelle, with the 35th Battalion (Simcoe Foresters) on the March, Saskatchewan, Aug 15, 1885
Lithograph on paper
13.0 25.4 image; page 21.1 x 32.5
C. Berkeley Powell Scrapbook, Vol. IV, page 37. Published in The Illustrated London News, 15 August 1885
National Archives of Canada/Archives nationales du Canada.
Acc. no. 1933-242-59; neg. no.: C-007093