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Born at Prescott, Upper Canada, James Morrow Walsh was appointed a Superintendent of the North-West Mounted Police in 1873. He recruited, trained and led part of the new police force and held commands at Fort Walsh, which he founded in 1875, and later at Qu'Appelle.
Until his resignation in 1883, James Morrow Walsh vigorously enforced the law in the North West and is best known for his part in persuading Sitting Bull and his Sioux to return to the United States when they sought refuge here in the late 1870's.
In 1897 he was appointed Commissioner of the Yukon Provisional District, a post he held until his retirement in September 1898.
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