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Title: Lovers of the horse : brief sketches of men and women of the Dominion of Canada devoted to the noblest of animals. --
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Rose, Geo. Maclean (George Maclean), 1829-1898
Subjects: Fox hunting Horsemanship Horse racing Horses
Publisher: Toronto : Hunter, Rose Company
Contributing Library: Toronto Public Library: Research and Reference Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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an extraordinary drought was very hard on the horses, and the patrols,imder Superintendent Perry, had to travel on one day 40 miles, and on the next 42miles without water. Great credit was considered due Supt. Perry for the splendidcondition of the horses on arrival at Regina. During 1889 nuich interest was taken in rifle shooting and many improvementswere made in the force and in the method of working. 58 Lovers of the Horse In 1890 11 1( 11. the Duke of Connaught was inovidcd with escorts and trans-port through the Nortliwest. and His Royal Iliglniess expressed liiniself as muchpleased with the Mounted Police, and the services performed for him by them. In lSi)l Sir Jolin A. Macdonald died, and in the new Government formed afterhis death, tile Premier. Hon Sir.I .1. (. Abbott, retained control of the Mounted Police. During this year the force gave great assistance to the Calgary and Edmonton,and the Calgarv and Macleod railways, and also, in that yeai-. a strict liquor license
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l-oiK-II Ioi.u bv-law was inlrnduced, which tended greatly to reduce the objectionable duties whichthe Police had hitherto Ixcn called upon to discharge in enforcing the laws res))ectiiigli(;Uor. in 1S!)^2 the Mounted Police Department went under the charge of Hon AV BIves, President of the Privy Council, and in July of that year a permanent outpostwas estal)lishc(l at Cumberland House, about 220 miles below Prince Albert, on theSaskatchewan lliver. In 1S!»1 the Hon. Sir Mackenzie Bowcll became the administrative head of theMoiniicfl iolice Department, and took a very great interest in the corps, and in 1S!).5 Lovers of the Horse 39 a (lilafliiiiciit of the Moiiiitcd Iolife were sent to preserve hnv and order in theYukon In 1S!)() Sir Wilfrid Lauricr formed Ins fiist (al)iiiet. and since that time liasmaintained the keenest jiersonal interest in the force and men. In 1S!)7, Jnl)ih>e year, the sixtieth anniversary of the accession of

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