Fort Walsh

Fort Walsh
National Historic Site of Canada
Province	Saskatchewan
Municipality	Maple Creek No. 111
Founder	North-West Mounted Police
Established	1873 trading post; 1878 Headquarters NWMP
Year built	1875
Important events	Cypress Hills Massacre
Website	Canadian Encyclopedia Fort Walsh

Fort Walsh
North Saskatchewan River Saskatchewan Canada.
Type	Fort
Site information
Site history
Built	1875
In use	1875-1883
Battles/wars	Cypress Hills Massacre

Fort Walsh is a National Historic Site of Canada that was a North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) fort and the site of the Cypress Hills Massacre. Administered by Parks Canada, it forms a constituent part of Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park.

The fort was built in June 1875, and was named for its builder, inspector James Morrow Walsh.^[1] The fort was intended to curb the illegal whiskey trade, protect Canada's nearby border with the United States, and aid with native policy.^[1] These factors had been brought to public attention following the Cypress Hills Massacre of 1873, and resulted in Sir John A. Macdonald's establishment of the North-West Mounted Police. Fort Walsh served as the NWMP headquarters from 1878 to 1882. In 1883 the fort was closed and dismantled.^[1]

The site of the fort was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1924.^[2] The fort was later reconstructed in the 1940s to breed horses for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Musical Ride.

Today tourists can tour the fort's buildings, the former townsite, cemeteries and the whiskey trading post.^[3][4] On September 28, 2004, Fort Walsh became part of the Cypress Hills Dark-sky preserve.

On 28 June 1985 Canada Post issued 'Fort Walsh, Sask., circa 1880' one of the 20 stamps in the “Forts Across Canada Series” (1983 & 1985). The stamps are perforated 12½ x 13 and were printed by Ashton-Potter Limited based on the designs by Rolf P. Harder. ^[5]

See also

• List of National Historic Sites in Saskatchewan

External links

• Summer in the Southwest - Feel the History of the Cypress Hills
• Parks Canada Fort Walsh National Historic Site of Canada - official site
• Canadian Encyclopedia Fort Walsh
• Fort Walsh National Historic Site
• The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan | Fort Walsh
• North-West Mounted Police Trail
• Photographs of Fort Walsh and Inspector Dickens
• Virtual Saskatchewan - Fort Walsh and the Mounties
• Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan

References

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Coordinates: 49°34′22″N 109°52′53″W / 49.572747°N 109.881456°W / 49.572747; -109.881456