For 10 points, name this national police force of Canada, whose members are known for their red dress uniforms.
The 2005 Mayerthorpe incident saw four members of this group killed in one day. This group was created partly as a result of incidents at the whiskey post Fort Whoop-Up. Members of this group suffered heavy losses at the Battle of Duck Lake while trying to suppress Louis Riel's 1885 Metis uprising. This group originates from an 1873 decision by Prime Minister John Macdonald to create a force to operate in the northwest of his country. The present day incarnation of this group was formed out of a 1920 merger by one group with the earlier, similar Dominion Police. Its earliest activities included enforcing the law during the gold rush in the Yukon Territory. For 10 points, name this national police force of Canada, whose members are known for their red dress uniforms.
The 2005 Mayerthorpe incident saw four members of this group killed in one day.
{Royal Canadian Mounted} Police [accept {Mounties}, {RCMP}, {Royal Northwest Mounted Police}, {North}-{West Mounted Police}, {RNMP}, or {NWMP}, prompt on things like {Canada’s police force}]