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THE
ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE
A
STORY BY MARC TETRO
AS
RETOLD BY MRS. FLEGER'S GRADE ONES
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1Marc Tetro writes a
story of the RCMP from the beginning of its history over 125
years ago. I distributed a number of copies of the book to the
children and they recreated the pictures using a variety of
colors of construction paper. When the pictures were completed,
we summarized the events and used both the pictures and the
writing as a bulletin board display during the Celebration of
Learning in November. |
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The first
people in Canada were the Indians. They lived in teepees so that
they could pack up and follow the buffalo.
By:
Kennedy and Sophie |
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John A.
MacDonald was Canada's first Prime Minister then and he wanted
to build a railway from one end of Canada to the other. He knew
that he needed to have police to look after all the people who
would be living there.
By:
Nicholas |
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These men
were teachers and farmers, students, and lumberjacks.
By: Molly |
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The
Mounties headed off west to begin their new job. But the land
was hot in the summer and very cold in the winter. The land was
hard.
By:
Kimberly |
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The
animals were very tired when the finally got to the land of the
Blackfoot Indians.
By: Jena |
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The
Mounties got busy very fast building their first police station
in Fort Macleod.
By: Kyle |
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Some of
the Indian leaders, like Louis Riel, did not like the idea of
white people coming in and settling in their land.
By:
Michael |
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But the
Indians grew to trust the Mounties and they did allow them to
cross their land.
By: Susan |
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The
workers soon began to build the railway heading west.
By: Alison
and Danny |
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The train brought people
from all over Europe to settle in the new land.
By:
Brennan and Grant |
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The
Mounties rode on horses.
By:
Nicholette and Vanessa |
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Gold was
discovered in the Klondike! People went wild! The Mounties
needed to go up there to make sure that bad things did not
happen.
By: Andrew |
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Soon the
Mounties went up North to look after the Inuit people.
By: Anicia
and Jessica |
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King
Edward V111 of England gave the Mounties a new name, the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police.
By: Steven
and Vladimir |
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Today the
Mounties take care of the people of Canada and we are proud of
the work that they do.
By:
Jessica |
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| Submitted by
Patti Fleger at St. Monica School
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