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The Fort (Museum of the North West Mounted Police)

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The Fort (Museum of the North West Mounted Police)
The Fort (Museum of the North West Mounted Police)
The Fort (Museum of the North West Mounted Police)
The Fort (Museum of the North West Mounted Police)
The Fort (Museum of the North West Mounted Police)
The Fort (Museum of the North West Mounted Police)
The Fort (Museum of the North West Mounted Police)
The Fort (Museum of the North West Mounted Police)
The Fort (Museum of the North West Mounted Police)
The Fort (Museum of the North West Mounted Police)
The Fort (Museum of the North West Mounted Police)
The Fort (Museum of the North West Mounted Police)
The Fort (Museum of the North West Mounted Police)
The Fort (Museum of the North West Mounted Police)
The Fort (Museum of the North West Mounted Police)
Phone:
+1 403-553-4703

Hours:
Sunday9am - 5pm
Monday9am - 5pm
Tuesday9am - 5pm
Wednesday9am - 5pm
Thursday9am - 5pm
Friday9am - 5pm
Saturday9am - 5pm


The Cypress Hills Massacre was a mass murder that occurred on June 1, 1873, near Battle Creek in the Cypress Hills region of Canada's North-West Territories . It involved a group of American bison hunters, American wolf hunters or wolfers, American and Canadian whisky traders, Métis cargo haulers or freighters, and a camp of Assiniboine people. An estimated twenty or more Natives and one wolfer died. The Cypress Hills Massacre prompted the Canadian government to accelerate the recruitment and deployment of the newly formed North-West Mounted Police to prevent further conflict.
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