Fort Walsh Plaque
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| Title: | Fort Walsh Plaque |
| Creator: | Historic Sites And Monuments Board of Canada |
| Subject: | Fort Walsh, Monuments |
| Description: | Monuments and Memorials
Historic Sites And Monuments Board of Canada Fort Walsh Erected 1926 The plaque reads, "Fort Walsh. A post of the North West Mounted Police, built by Inspector J.M. Walsh in 1875. In the Cypress Hills where hunting bands of the Blackfeet, Crees, Assiniboines, Saulteaux, and Sioux met and fought, 102 officers and men in 1876, imposed Queen's Law on a "fretfel realm". Headquarters of Commissioner A.G. Irvine until December, 1882. The post was removed to Maple Creek in 1883. The buildings stood about 220 yards west of this spot. Erected 1926." |
| Date: | 1926 |
| Type: | Image |
| Format: | image/jpeg |
| Identifier: | R-A4224-10 |
| GDI Media Location: | DVD:SAB-R1 |
| GDI Media Filename: | R-A4224-10.jpg |
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