#Royal Canadian Mounted Police

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"BOAT ALLEGED TO HAVE TAKEN WINE IS SEIZED," Hamilton Spectator. December 4, 1933. Page 7. --- Said to Have Carried Liquor From Hamilton ---- And Deposited It Near Rochester City --- Impounded By R.C.M.P. at Port Hope ---- A new development in the wine transaction between the H. Robinson corporation and an American bootleg ring came to light over the week-end when Sergeant Frank Samson took two men to Port Hope and seized the Harry H., a 125-foot craft that is alleged by the police to have carried the shipment of wine from Hamilton to a point near Rochester in the latter part of October.

Mounted Police officers stated that they had information in their possession that the craft in question had made the trip from Hamilton to a point near Rochester, where the purchasers of the wine had received it. Late Saturday Constables Crawford and McDuff, from the Toronto R.C.M.P. barracks, were placed on the boat after it was officially impounded by the government.

The boat has been lying in the west harbour at Port Hope for several months, ever since the law was passed prohibiting the export of liquor, but longshoremen at Port Hope said the ship was absent from its berth for three days at the time the police claim it made the trip. At this time the waterfront men said it sailed light and came back. -light and they believe the boat made the trip first to Hamilton and then to the American shore before returning.

Former Sub-Chaser The ship is of sturdy build and was used as a sub-chaser in the Black Sea during the war and is capable of doing about 40 miles an hour. It could make the trip from - its home berth to Rochester in about an hour, the lake sailors stated. It was registered at Toronto and the crew never stayed in Port Hope, residents of that town said. Whenever the ship made a trip the crew was brought down from Toronto.

At present Milton B. Staud is being held at Rochester charged by United States authorities with being in possession of merchandise that entered the country without the taxes being paid, but he will be turned over to the Mounted Police officers after they apply for extradition.

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The Mounties have been a respected national symbol for 150 years

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Walking in the Dinosaur Park Formation

Welcome to The Dinosaur Park Formation, Alberta Canada 75 Million years ago.

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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) was formed by the merger of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police (RNWMP, founded in 1873) with the Dominion Police (founded in 1868) on February 1, 1920.

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Meet Noble: a gift from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to King Charles III. The seven year-old mare - who stands at 16.2 hands high - is currently settling into life at The Royal Mews in Windsor, 2023.

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The King and Queen Come to Canada

“In the dark days before World War II King George VI and Queen Elizabeth sailed to Canada and also visited Washington in May of 1939 to enhance Canada and America’s resolve to support Britain should war come. Many Royals had visited Canada prior to 1939, but this visit was a special package, getting both the King and Queen. The first ever for a reigning monarch to visit Canada accompanied by his Queen. The King and Queen arrived by ship and travelled across Canada by train. To say the least, it was a “whistle stop” tour. During their tour there are Mounties galore protecting them and lining the routes as security. Four members were selected as their personal security and travelled across the country, and to Washington, with the King and Queen, Cst. R. Portelance, Cst. S. Langlois, Sgt. W.H. Williams and Cst. J.C. Coughlin. were the chosen four. Can you imagine the thrill, at the time, of being asked to be the personal escort to the King and Queen? When looking at the size of these four members, alongside the King and Queen, you can see why they were picked.”

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Veterans Association

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On sale February 20, 1924

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RCM Police St. Roch from Vancouver, Canada dated from 1928 on display at the Vancouver Maritime Museum, Canada

Royal Canadian Mounted Police, or RCMP, used ships like this schooner, to assert Canadian and British Imperial authority in couastal regions. RCMP were often the only official governemnt presence in the Arctic and so were the ones imposing the Canadian governments laws. This often included transporting Inuit children, against the families will, to resindential schools in or around the Arctic.

The St Roch is fampous for the RCMP's wartime duty of asserting sovreignty during wartime during the Second World War. From 1940 to 1942 the St Roch under captain Henry Larsen, a Norwegian immigrant to Canada, travelled the North West Passage. During this journey 8 members of crew died to heart attack.

Photographs taken by myself 2023

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"Police commissioner Perry decided to invite three of the “Revolutionary Socialists” to a secret meeting to get a sense of their intentions. Victor Midgley, Bill Pritchard, and Jack Kavanagh were all stalwarts of the Socialist Party of Canada from British Columbia. Midgley was the union official beaten by veterans during the sympathetic strike in Vancouver the previous August. He was one of the main organizers of the Calgary conference, which named him secretary of the One Big Union central committee. Pritchard joined him on the central committee. With his spectacles and a quiff, he had more the appearance of a mild-mannered school teacher than a longshoreman on the Vancouver waterfront. But Pritchard was a fire-and-brimstone orator who had played a pivotal role planning the Calgary conference, then guiding its debate. He would later serve a year in prison as one of the convicted leaders of the Winnipeg General Strike. Kavanagh, also a longshoreman and newly installed as the president of the BC Federation of Labour, was in charge of the committee that was meant to proselytize in favour of the One Big Union [OBU] in British Columbia.

In the report of the meeting that Perry made to his superiors, he described the trio of Reds as “intelligent, well-read men.” “They are tireless in pursuit of their objects,” he wrote, “and have all the fervour of fanatics.” He did not think they were plotting a violent overthrow of the government, but he feared them nonetheless.

I am not prepared to say that they are aiming at a revolution in the ordinary sense of that word, but I do say that they are influencing a section of labour in the West and unchaining forces which, even if they so desire, some day they will be unable to control. Here is grave danger to the peace and security of the country.

Even so, Perry urged caution. He feared that repressive measures would simply radicalize the more moderate members of the labour movement. Returning to the subject of armed revolution, he observed that “it can only succeed if a considerable number of returned soldiers join the movement.” The Reds knew this and were doing their best to court the veterans. He urged the government, therefore, to promote full employment and whatever other policies it could to placate the grievances of the soldiers.

Another crucial document influencing government thinking about the labour situation was a “Memo on Revolutionary Tendencies in Western Canada” prepared in early April by C.F. Hamilton. Hamilton was a former journalist (he covered the Boer War for the Toronto Globe) and wartime press censor. He had been assistant comptroller of the Mounted Police before the war and rejoined the Mounties afterward as an intelligence officer. He was a highly influential official within the force who reported directly to the commissioner. In his thirteen-page memo, Hamilton argued that there was a small but active band of revolutionaries at work in western Canada attempting to subvert the Canadian government.

Their openly avowed aim is to procure the establishment of a Soviet government, with its concomitants of the disappearance of parliamentary government, the subversion of the rule of the majority, the abolition of private ownership of property, and the destruction of the other institutions upon which society is founded.

Hamilton admitted that armed insurrection seemed unlikely in Canada, but he argued that there were circumstances in which it could occur. The key was the troubled labour situation, he said, and he sketched out a plausible scenario for the “would-be revolutionists.”

What they aim at is an intense conflict between labour and capital, embittered by riots and bloodshed; they calculate on a general dislocation of the industrial system, passing into an uprising of the working classes, probably reinforced by masses of discontented returned soldiers. The whole project turns upon the propagation of bad temper and mutual hate between classes …

Despite his dire prognosis, Hamilton did not believe that direct repression was the correct response. Instead, he called for a campaign of counter-propaganda highlighting the failure of Bolshevism to bring social peace and prosperity to Russia.

As alarmist reports piled up on the desks of senior ministers in Ottawa, the acting prime minister, Sir William Thomas White, panicked. White, a Montreal financier who had won his seat in Parliament in the 1911 election as an opponent of freer trade with the United States and had been rewarded with the finance portfolio in cabinet, was filling in for Prime Minister Borden who was still away at the peace negotiations in Europe. He cabled the absent prime minister in mid-April with the news that Bolshevism was rampant in Canada among soldiers and workers, especially in British Columbia. There was a revolution brewing, White reported, and he wanted Borden to ask the British government to dispatch one of its warships to Vancouver where “the presence of such ship and crew would have steadying influence.” Borden was in Paris hobnobbing with heads of state, making the world safe for democracy. He was impatient at White’s bothering him with what no doubt seemed like petty, and exaggerated, domestic problems. “I would very much like to reply, For Heaven’s Sake, let me alone,” he peevishly confided to his diary. Instead he advised White to do the best he could with the armed forces at his disposal. There would be no request for British help."

- Daniel Francis, Seeing Reds: the Red Scare of 1918-1919, Canada’s First War on Terror. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2011. p. 82-84.

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Paul Stahr, cover for "Argosy Weekly" magazine, Oct 1932

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Work in Progress: Dinosaur Park Formation

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The Canadian Parliament established the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on May 23, 1873.

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3 of diamonds

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È allarme per la violenza della polizia canadese verso i Nativi: nove morti solo nell’ultimo mese

di Raffaella Milandri© Avevo già deciso di parlare del Canada e delle terribili morti di Saskatoon, una serie di casi messi sotto silenzio, quando il 26 settembre mi è balzato all’occhio un titolo del Global News: “Da agosto 9 indigeni sono morti sotto la custodia della polizia”. Approfondiamo. Sul Canada pendono già accuse gravi, come abbiamo visto nei miei articoli “Cosa c’è dietro le scuse…