HIST261 Lecture Notes - Interoceanic Railway Of Mexico, Pacific Scandal, Assiniboine
25 Feb 2014
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The national policy: law and order, western style. The americans in their effort to acquire the west, engaged in long and costly indian wars. Cnd government wished to avoid this and so developed the north west mounted police (hereafter nwmp). Prior to this though the hbc had administrative authority over the region, they had no muscle to back their laws (see sayer case), and the aboriginals remained the strongest military force in the region. Ottawa is also concerned that americans will start squatting on cnd land, and they know that once they get in it"s almost impossible to get rid of americans. They also wanted to avoid another incident like the red river resistance, but it was the. Cypress hills massacre that pushed them to have central control. In 1872, some americans fur traders were trading at an illegal trading fort (on cnd soil) and got rather drunk.
