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» For the Count of Vienne of this name, see Charles Constantine of Vienne.Charles Constantine (
13 November 1846 –
5 May 1912) was a Canadian
Northwest Mounted Police officer and superintendent, from
Bradford,
Yorkshire.
Following his service in the
Canadian militia during the
Red River Rebellion (1870) and the
Northwest Rebellion (1885), he was commissioned as an inspector in the Northwest Mounted Police in 1886. After serving in
Banff and
Regina, he was sent to examine conditions in the
Yukon district in
1894 as the government was concerned about the influx of American miners and the liquor trade. He forecast that a gold rush was imminent and reported that there was an urgent need for a police force. In the following year, he went back to the Yukon with a force of 20 men who were in place when the
Klondike Gold Rush started in
1897. Constantine's efforts ensured that law was maintained during the gold rush, that Canadian sovereignty was assured and helped create the Mounties' international reputation.
He left the Yukon in 1898, replaced by
Sam Steele and returned to the prairies after being promoted to Superintendent. In 1902, he returned to the north to establish forts at
Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories and
Herschel Island off the Yukon
Arctic Ocean coast. This was the first foray by the NWMP north of the
Arctic circle.
After returning to the
Athabasca District in 1905, Constantine was responsible for building a trail from
Fort St. John, British Columbia to
Teslin Lake in the Yukon, although work on the trail was abandoned in 1908. He died in 1912 in California following an operation.
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