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jun 1, 1873 - Cypress Hills Massacre

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American whisky traders kill fifty-six Assiniboine in the Cypress Hills of the southern Prairies. The North-West Mounted Police (later the RCMP) is formed to keep order in the new Canadian territories.

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jun 1, 1873
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~ 153 years ago