Denny, Cecil Edward

Cecil Edward Denny, 1850-1928, was born in Hampshire, England. In 1874 he came to Canada and enlisted in the recently-created North-West Mounted Police (NWMP). He made the historic trek west. He rose to the rank of Inspector in the force, and was a signatory of Treaty 7 in 1877. In 1884 he resigned from the Mounted Police, and became an official of the federal Indian Department. During the 1885 Riel Rebellion (North West Rebellion) the Department placed him in charge of western native peoples. He later served as a magistrate, and in his retirement took up a homestead at Colinton, near Athabasca, Alberta. In 1922 he succeeded to the title of 6th Baron of Tralee Castle, and the same year was appointed archivist to the Alberta government. On his death one half of his estate was bequeathed to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Veterans Association. He is interred in the Mounted Police plot in Calgary's Union Cemetery. For further information seee Clifford Leech's article, "Sir Cecil Denny : Sixth Baronet of Tralee Castle", in Fort Calgary Quarterly, vol. 1, no. 3 (Summer 1980), p. 2-7, and Alan B. McCullough's entry, "Sir Cecil Edward Denny", in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. XV, at www.biographi.ca.