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unusual facts about North West Mounted Police



Alan Le May

He also wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for Reap the Wild Wind (1942; with John Wayne and Paulette Goddard) and Blackbeard the Pirate (1952; with Robert Newton), North West Mounted Police (1940; for Cecil B. DeMille), and the novel for Along Came Jones (1945; with Gary Cooper), as well as a score of other screenplays and an assortment of novels and short stories.

Canadian military fur wedge cap

The fur wedge cap is prominently featured in the Cecil B. DeMille film North West Mounted Police (1940), with the mounted police characters all wearing the cap despite the fact that the movie is set in the summer time.

John Draper Perrin

Perrin was born in Medicine Hat, North-West Territories, to William Perrin, a former British soldier in the Wolseley Expedition, (1st Battalion, 60th King's Royal Rifles) and Sergeant in the North West Mounted Police and Sarah Lytle; both parents were Irish immigrants.


see also

Arthur French

Sir George Arthur French (1841–1921), second Commissioner of the Canadian North West Mounted Police

George French

George Arthur French (1841–1921), first Commissioner of the North-West Mounted Police

William O. Smith

William Osborne Smith (1833–1887), first Acting Commissioner of the North West Mounted Police