17. Royal North West Mounted Police (RNWMP) saddle

18 - NWMP saddle on white

ca. 1895-1899

Used by the local Royal North West Mounted Police in the Hudson’s Hope area. The present townsite itself was not established as a community until 1899. Eventually the RNWMP gave the saddle to the use of the Dominion Telegraph Company who were expanding telegraph lines into the interior, arriving in Hudson’s Hope in 1915.