Fort Walsh National Historic Site of Canada is the site of an early North West Mounted Police post set among the rolling Cypress Hills in southern Saskatchewan. In the mid-twentieth century, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police constructed 10 log buildings on the site for its remount ranch. The siting and architecture of these buildings was intended to evoke the original nineteenth-century fort. A living fort from the 1870s, when the North West Mounted Police brought Canadian law to the West. Hear the stories of the Cypress Hills Massacre and learn of its impact on the Nakoda people and on Canada in Southwest Saskatchewan. Le lieu historique national du Canada du Fort-Walsh est l'emplacement d'un des premiers postes de la Police à cheval du Nord-Ouest (PCN-O). Il est situé dans les collines du Cyprès, dans le sud de la Saskatchewan. Au milieu du XXe siècle, la Gendarmerie royale du Canada y a construit dix bâtiments pour son ranch de chevaux de remonte. L'emplacement et l'architecture de ces édifices voulaient évoquer le fort original du XIXe siècle. Le fort Walsh est un fort dynamique des années 1870, à l’époque où la Police à cheval du Nord-Ouest a instauré le respect des lois canadiennes dans l’Ouest. Écoutez les récits du massacre des collines Cypress et découvrez ses conséquences sur le peuple Nakoda et sur le Canada dans le Sud-Ouest de la Saskatchewan. Source: Parks Canada Website (2022)

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Trails Map/Cartes des sentiers 2018

Management Plan: (2013, 2005, 1993) / Plan directeur: (2013, 2005) (Parks Canada)

State of the Sites Report 2009 / Rapport sur l’état des lieux historiques nationaux du Fort-Walsh et du Massacre-de-Cypress Hills (Parks Canada, 2010)

A Materials History of the Commissioner's Residence at Fort Walsh Manuscript Report Number/Travail inédit numéro 400 (Walter Hildebrand, Parks Canada, 1980)

A Mirror of Our Past: Archaeology at Fort Walsh (Parks Canada, 1986)

Archaeological Investigations at a Late Nineteenth Century Northwest Mounted Police Post, Fort Walsh, Saskatchewan, 1973-74 Field Seasons Manuscript Report Number/Travail inédit numéro 200 (James V. Sciscenti, et al., Parks Canada, 1976)

Archaeological Investigations at a Late Nineteenth Century N.W.M.P. Post, Fort Walsh, Saskatchewan: Preliminary Report on the 1976 Excavations Manuscript Report Number/Travail inédit numéro 281 (Jeffrey S. Murray, Parks Canada, 1977)

Cypress Hills Ethnohistory and Ecology: A Regional Perspective Archaeological Survey of Alberta Occasional Paper No. 10 (Robson Bonnichsen and Stuart J. Baldwin, Alberta Culture Historical Resources Division, December 1978)

Field Guide: Geology of the Alberta Cypress Hills 2000 Fall Field Trip (J.F. Lerbekmo, Edmonton Geological Society, 2000)

Fort Walsh: Documents Relating to its Structural History Manuscript Report Number/Travail inédit numéro 174 (A.B. McCullough, Parks Canada, 1976)

Fort Walsh Frontier Post: Archaeology at Fort Walsh / Fort Walsh Poste Frontalier: Archéologie au fort Walsh (Parks Canada, 1986)

Fort Walsh Townsite (1875-1883): Early Settlement in the Cypress Hills (©Kimberly Aaron Wutzke, Master's Thesis University of Saskatchewan, August 2009)

From Sage to Timber: A History of the Fort Walsh, Cypress Hills (west block), Merryflat and Battle Creek areas (Joyce Nuttall, Maple Creek, Saskatchewan: Merry Battlers Ladies Club, 1989)

Heritage Character Statement / Énoncé de valeur patrimoniale, Fort Walsh National Historic Site

Commissioner's Residence/Building No. 1 / Maison du commissaire/Bâtiment n^o 1 (FHBRO No. 88-68, December 17, 1990, Canadian Register of Historic Places)

Overview (Parks Canada, undated)

Papers Relating to the North-West Mounted Police and Fort Walsh Manuscript Report Number/Travail inédit numéro 213 (A.B. McCullough, Parks Canada, 1977)

Reconstructions of a Different Kind: The Mounted Police and the Rebirth of Fort Walsh, 1942-1966 (James De Jonge, extract from Saskatchewan History, Vol. 49 No. 1, Spring 1997, ©Saskatchewan Archives Board)

Superintendent James Morrow Walsh, North West Mounted Police: An Interpretive & Biographical Study (David Ross, December 1996)

The Nez Perce and Fort Walsh

The Nez Perce Indians in Canada, 1877 and After (Jerome A. Greene, December 2007)

The North-West Mounted Police, 1873-1883 Manuscript Report Number/Travail inédit numéro 113 (Edwin Charles Morgan, Parks Canada, 1970)

The North-West Mounted Police 1873-1893, Volume I (John Peter Turner, 1950)

The North-West Mounted Police 1873-1893, Volume II (John Peter Turner, 1950)

"The Rock Pile," Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan (Rudy W. Klassen extract from The Blue Jay, Vol. 55 No. 1, March 1997)

Whisky, Horses and Death: The Cypress Hills Massacre and its Sequel, Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History No. 21 (Philip Goldring, Parks Canada, 1979)

"Without Fear, Favour or Affection," The Men of the North West Mounted Police / « Sans craindre ni favoriser qui que ce soit » : les hommes de la Police à cheval du Nord-Ouest (Library and Archives Canada)

Xplorers / Xplorateurs (Parks Canada)

The following visual bibliography is just a sampling of the books which have been published for this park. ParksCanadaHistory.com does not endorse these, but are merely presenting them for informational purposes only. As most are copyrighted, we are only able to provide the covers, and not contents, of these publications.

cover only Fort Walsh and The Cypress Hills Frank W. Anderson 1999

cover only Major James Morrow Walsh of the North West Mounted Police: Friend of Sitting Bull Brian Porter 2005

cover only Sitting Bull's Boss: Above the Medicine Line with James Morrow Walsh Ian Anderson 2010