North West Mounted Police

_______________________________________Hockley Family History______________________________________

 

Thomas Edward Hockley - North West Mounted Police

 

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The North West Mounted Police was established in 1873 to bring Canadian authority to the North West Territories (present-day Alberta and Saskatchewan). Its jurisdiction grew to include the Yukon in 1895, the Arctic Coast in 1903 and northern Manitoba in 1912. http://www.genealogy.gc.ca/10/101303_e.html

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I have a subscription to the Paper of Records website http://www.paperofrecord.com/  and while searching for information on a cousin, John Hockley Thorne, who went to the Klondike and never returned; I found the following details about another Hockley. Is this your Hockley family?
 
THE DAILY MORNING SUN
Dawson, Yukon Territory, Canada
Friday, June 6, 1902
Page 1 – Forty-Mile News Section

 

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1901 Canadian Census

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1901 Canadian Census – Clinton Creek – Yukon Territory, f-40-a, page 1

Name:                                                     T. E. F. Hockley

Birthplace:                                               England

Age:                                                        22 years   (born abt. 1879)

Occupation:                                              North West Mounted Police (NWMP)

Years in Yukon:                                         1

Date of Arrival in Canada:                          1898

Marital Status:                                          Single

Source: http://automatedgenealogy.com/census/index.html

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National Archives of Canada
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/020105_e.html
 
Reference:     RG18 , Royal Canadian Mounted Police , Series G , Volume 3416
File : 3460 , Access code: 90
File Title:        HOCKLEY, THOMAS EDWARD
Finding Aid number:  18-25

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Posted May 22, 2005 by Darlene Heal

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