Expedition of the North-West Mounted Police of Canada into the Saskatchewan Territory
Alternate Title
[Report of the British War Office on the Cypress Hills Massacre]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Intelligence Branch
Quartermaster-General's Department
[British War Department]
Description
Confidential report gives background information on the Cypress Hills Massacre. On June 1, 1873 American wolf hunters and whisky traders attacked an Assiniboine camp and killed at least 20 men, women children. The event precipitated the formation of the North-West Mounted Police.