The North-West Mounted Police was established under whose term?
Sir Wilfrid Laurier
Louis Riel
Pierre Trudeau
John A. Macdonald
Answer
The North-West Mounted Police was established under the term of John A. Macdonald, Canada's first Prime Minister. It was created in 1873 to maintain order and enforce the law in the vast and unsettled Canadian West, particularly in the aftermath of the Red River Rebellion.
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