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Specialty Museum Attractions In Fort Macleod

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Fort Macleod, originally named Macleod, is a town in the southwest corner of the province of Alberta, Canada. It was founded as a North-West Mounted Police barracks, and is named in honour of the North-West Mounted Police Colonel James Macleod. It was known as the Town of Macleod between 1892 and 1912.
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  • 1. The Fort (Museum of the North West Mounted Police) Fort Macleod
    The Cypress Hills Massacre was a mass murder that occurred on June 1, 1873, near Battle Creek in the Cypress Hills region of Canada's North-West Territories . It involved a group of American bison hunters, American wolf hunters or wolfers, American and Canadian whisky traders, Métis cargo haulers or freighters, and a camp of Assiniboine people. An estimated twenty or more Natives and one wolfer died. The Cypress Hills Massacre prompted the Canadian government to accelerate the recruitment and deployment of the newly formed North-West Mounted Police to prevent further conflict.
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