Alberta Field Force News Today

Intelligence watchdog describes tensions between CSIS and security adviser over what information reaches the Prime Minister, failures to track who sees key reports

The real history of Sam Steele in the Kootenays

The tale of David Cowan, an Ottawa teen who enlisted with the NWMP at age 14 by lying about his age, then died in the North-West Resistance.

The North West Mounted Police, as it was initially known, was deployed to Western Canada in the summer of 1874. Once in the West, the N.W.M.P. began the establishment of a network of police posts and patrol routes. Most of the activity in Central Alberta was initially limited to constables making their way from the posts in Southern Alberta to Fort Edmonton and Fort Saskatchewan.