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What is the Royal Canadian Mounted Police?
The North West Mounted Police changed their name in 1920 to this name.
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What is "The Last Best West"?
This was the slogan used in immigration advertisement campaigns.
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Who are prospectors?
This is the name of the people who went in search for gold.
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What is sluicing?
The process of removing dirt and sludge while searching for gold.
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Who are women?
This group was able to join the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1975.
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What is marquis wheat?
This strain of wheat was invented in 1904.
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What is one year?
Prospectors needed their food supplies to last for this amount of time.
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What is 1991?
The first First Nations RCMP troop was created in this year.
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What is whiskey?
The North West Mounted Police needed to control this illegal trade item.
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What is scrip?
The Metis were given this coupon that could be exchanged for money or land.
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What is Dawson city?
This is a town that developed in the gold rush and became the captial of the Yukon Territory.
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What are high taxes and religious persecution?
People moved to the west to escape from these two things.
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What is the turban?
In 1990 police men were able to wear this instead of the stetson.
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Who is Clifford Sifton?
This person was the Minister of the Interior from 1865 to 1905.
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What is the Chilkoot Pass?
Prospectors used this pass to reach the Klondike.
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What is protecting the Canadian border?
It is for this reason that the Canadian government wanted to populate the west.
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Who are the Blackfoot?
The North West Mounted Police promised this First Nations group that they would treat them equally before the law.
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What is the homestead system?
In this land ownership system, settlers paid $10 for a plot of land and needed to develop it within 3 years.
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What is cyanide?
This poisonous chemical was used to mine gold during the gold rush.
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Who is Robert Service?
This is a famous Canadian poet who wrote about the Gold Rush.
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