Early 1900s Canada photo of Royal North-West Mounted Police

Early photo of 6 Royal North-West Mounted Police (RNWMP) / early RCMP officers on horseback photographed outside a small-town detachment building (Manitoba, possibly North-Western Ontario) between before 1911. RARE! Duties included: Day‑to‑day policing of settlement, Maintaining order among incoming settlers, and administering detachments across prairie communities, Additional identification information on uniform collars: 13 D 12 D 26 D (?)4 D In Canadian mounted police practice (RNWMP → RCMP), men often wore numerical detachment identifiers on their collars or shoulder straps: The number = the troop or detachment number The letter = the division So: 26 D = 26th Detachment, D Division 4 D = 4th Detachment, D Division Damaged, toning, stains Mounted on 8" x 10" card. Photo is 6 ½” x 8 ½” D Division was a major division of the Royal North-West Mounted Police (RNWMP). It covered parts of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and later Alberta The archival records show: D Division existed from 1878–1911 in the NWMP/RNWMP period. These are official letterbooks and administrative records. Later RCMP history confirms that D Division’s jurisdiction was Manitoba, and at times parts of northwestern Ontario. This aligns with the earlier NWMP/RNWMP footprint. The NWMP/ RNWMP operated detachments across Western Canada, and D Division’s letterbooks are explicitly categorized under “Western Canada – Government, Law and Justice.”