North West Mounted Police Memorial - Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada
N 52° 45.373 W 108° 19.573
12U E 680430 N 5848504
A plaque on one of the pillars marking the entrance to the Battleford Cemetery was placed in memory of the North West Mounted Police killed during the 1885 Rebellion.
Waymark Code: WMHPBP
Location: Saskatchewan, Canada
Date Posted: 07/30/2013
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The plaque reads:
In Memory Of
Corpl. R.B. Sleigh
" W.T. Lowry
Const. D. Cowan
" P. Burke
Const. G. Elliott
Members of the North West Mounted Police
Who Were Killed in the Vicinity of
Battleford during the Rebellion of 1885.
The following information about the 1885 Rebellion is from Wikipedia:
"The North-West Rebellion (or the North-West Resistance, Saskatchewan Rebellion, Northwest Uprising, or Second Riel Rebellion) of 1885 was a brief and unsuccessful uprising by the Métis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel against the government of Canada. During a time of great social change in Western Canada, the Métis believed that the Canadaian governemnt had failed to address the protection of their rights, their land and their survival as a distinct people. Despite some notable early victories at Duck Lake, Fish Creek and Cut Knife, the rebellion effectively ended for the Métis with their defeat at the siege of Batoche, Saskatchewan, the eventual scattering of their allied Aboriginal forces elsewhere, and the trial and hanging of Louis Riel. Tensions between French Canada and English Canada increased for some time. Due to the role that the Canadian Pacific Railway played in transporting troops, political support increased and Parliament authorized funds to complete the country's first transcontinental railway."
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