North-West Mounted Police

The North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) was a Canadian police force. It was established in 1873, and in 1904 the name was changed to Royal Northwest Mounted Police. In 1920, it merged with Dominion Police to the current Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

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Famous quotes containing the words mounted and/or police:

    Casey Jones, mounted to the cabin,
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    Casey Jones mounted to the cabin,
    Took his farewell journey to the Promised Land.
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    Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since what happened to them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.
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