City of Regina Archives Photograph Collection,
CORA-A-553
  
  Title: RCMP Barracks
Date: 1937
Retrieval Number:
CORA-A-553
Extent: 1 B&W Print; 11 cm x 7 cm
Scope and Content Note: RCMP barracks with a cannon in the foreground
Access Restrictions: None
Photographer:
A.C.V. Hall
Parent fonds/collection: CORA Photograph Collection
Historical Note: The North West Mounted Police had been headquartered in Fort Walsh since their early days in the North West Territories . Once the CPR line went through Regina – and once Lieutenant-Governor Dewdney decided to relocate the capital there – the decision was made to move the NWMP headquarters as well. So in 1882 the force moved to Regina , and in 1883 the force's numbers went from 300 to 500 in an effort to meet their new commitments to policing the Last Best West.

 

 
 


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