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- 1 2 "About the RCMP in Nova Scotia". Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Retrieved October 11, 2017.
April 1, 1932 saw the realization of RCMP contract policing in Nova Scotia. Nearly 90 members of the former Nova Scotia Police and 35 of the Preventive Service (former Department of National Revenue force) swore the RCMP oath to 'faithfully, diligently and impartially execute and perform [their] duties,' on that day.
- ↑ Marquis, Greg (1990). "The History of Policing in the Maritime Provinces: Themes and Prospects". Urban History Review. 19 (2): 84–89. doi: 10.7202/1017677ar .
In fact the official name, Nova Scotia Police, was chosen because the term Provincial Police, associated with strikes in the coals fields, was too controversial in Cape Breton
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