North West Mounted Police Constable wearing Pith Helmet, 1873

The NWMP was established in 1873, and were deployed to the area of the present Alberta border. Their ill-planned and arduous journey of nearly 900 miles became known as the March West, and is portrayed as an epic journey of endurance.Over the next few years, the NWMP established a wide network of forts, posts and patrols and extended Canadian law across the region. The living conditions of the NWMP on the prairies were spartan and often uncomfortable, and only slowly improved over the course of the century. Over the decades the force would be renamed the Royal North West Mounted Police and then after WWI it became known as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. 

Model: JJD-WSP73