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Northwest Police Hist. 
a federal police force organized in 1873 to bring law and order to the Northwest, the name after 1904 being the Royal North West Mounted Police and after 1920 the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
See also: North West Mounted Police
- 1897 A liberal supply of arms and ammunition should be taken, not that there is any special danger to human life, as the Northwest Police are famous for keeping order, but to give you a day's sport now and then, and possibly a supply of fresh meat.
- 1900 The door was flung open, and a man, clad in the scarlet tunic of the Northwest Police, waded knee-deep among the furious brutes, calmly and impartially dispensing soothing justice with the butt end of a dog-whip.
- 1897 A liberal supply of arms and ammunition should be taken, not that there is any special danger to human life, as the Northwest Police are famous for keeping order, but to give you a day's sport now and then, and possibly a supply of fresh meat.