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ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER JOHN HENRY MCILREE I.S.O.

Assistant Commissioner McIlree was born in Kingston, Jamaica in about 1849. He was the son of Surgeon-General J.D. McIlree of Halifax and Sandhurst.

He joined the North West Mounted Police as a Sergeant on November 3, 1873. On April1, 1874, he was appointed to the commissioned ranks as a Sub-Inspector. He was promoted to the rank of Superintendent on January 24, 1882; to the rank of Assistant Commissioner on November 1, 1892. Assistant Commissioner McIlree retired to pension on March 1, 1911. He died in Victoria, B.C. on May 17, 1925.

POLICING THE PLAINS

Being the real life record of the famous
ROYAL NORTH-WEST MOUNTED POLICE

By R. G. MACBETH, M.A.

(A link to The Project Gutenberg EBook of Policing the
Plains, by R.G. MacBeth with many references to
John Henry McIlree)

MOUNTED POLICE ROUNDING UP HORSE THIEVES.

The link below leads to a news item from the Saskatchewan News Index on an Indian outlaw called 'Almighty Voice' and Assistant Commissioner McIlree's part in his downfall.

http://library.usask.ca/sni/stories/her4.html

Another reference to John Henry McIlree can be found in an article on
The Treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba and the North-West Territories which, can be found at

http://www.usask.ca/nativelaw/treaty6.html


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