D’Arcy Edward Strickland (1868 - 1908)
	
D’Arcy Strickland was born at Lakefield, Ontario. He graduated from the Royal Military College of Canada at Kingston. Lieutenant Strickland served as the Adjunct in the Prince of Wales Canadian Dragoons at Cobourg, Ontario. He joined the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) in 1891 with the rank of Inspector.((Mark Gaillard, “Inspector D’Arcy Strickland Remembered.” RCMP Veterans’ Association, 9 March 2018. 2019 website:  https://www.facebook.com/RCMPVets/posts/inspector-darcy-strickland-rememberedwhitehorse-yt-march-20-2018-one-hundred-and/1691918790869490/))
 	
In 1895 Strickland was second in command to Superintendent Charles Strickland when a group of eighteen officers established a police post at Forty Mile. Strickland’s wife Tannis and their son Roland accompanied him to the Yukon.((Mark Gaillard, “Inspector D’Arcy Strickland Remembered.” RCMP Veterans’ Association, 9 March 2018. 2019 website:  https://www.facebook.com/RCMPVets/posts/inspector-darcy-strickland-rememberedwhitehorse-yt-march-20-2018-one-hundred-and/1691918790869490/))
	
In 1896, Constantine wrote to a miners' committee telling them that their actions were illegal. The message arrived three hours after a meeting was held. The miners had decided to take illegal possession of a claim on Glacier Creek. Constantine refused to accept the bill of sale and sent Inspector Strickland and eleven men, armed with Lee Metford carbines and pistols, and three First Nation polers and packers to Glacier Creek on the night of July 4th. The party reached Kink House, fifteen miles up the Fortymile River after twelve hours of travel. They then marched cross country to Moose Creek where they camped overnight and then travelled the final stint to the goldfields.((Jim Wallace, //Forty Mile to Bonanza: The North-West Mounted Police in the Klondike Gold Rush.// Calgary: Bunker to Bunker Publishing, 2000: 29-32, 33, 37, 83.)) 

Strickland and his men deposed David Thompson who Jerry Baker had put in possession of the claim and handed it back to the original owners. Strickland remained on the creek for a further two days and finally received assurances from Malony, the chairman of the miners’ committee, that there would be no further trouble.((Jim Wallace, //Forty Mile to Bonanza: The North-West Mounted Police in the Klondike Gold Rush.// Calgary: Bunker to Bunker Publishing, 2000: 29-32, 33, 37, 83.))

Constantine said Strickland was generally known as a good fellow with a fondness for drink. His saloon bill for one month was more than half of his salary. Constantine said he would rather be alone. When gold was discovered on Bonanza Creek, Constantine realised he would need more and dependable men and he sent Strickland out on the first boat in the spring, asking Herchmer to send him a different Inspector.((Jim Wallace, //Forty Mile to Bonanza: The North-West Mounted Police in the Klondike Gold Rush.// Calgary: Bunker to Bunker Publishing, 2000: 29-32, 33, 37, 83.))
	
Inspector Strickland established Tagish Post in October 1897. Superintendent Steele ordered the Bennett and Tagish detachments to number and record all boats passing through. Because conditions at the Summit were difficult, Superintendent Steele ordered a further examination of all goods by customs there.((Helene Dobrowolsky, "A Sense of Detachments: Selected Yukon Police Post Histories." Yukon Government Heritage Studies Project.)) On 13 February 1898, Inspector Strickland's party of twenty men marched up to the White Pass summit from the post at Tagish in a raging storm. They pitched their tents on the ice and built a small hut and hoisted the Union Jack on February 27th. They had few creature comforts. The men and four horses sheltered under canvas and their closest source of wood was twelve miles away. Strickland was removed from his duty on the Chilkoot when he became ill with bronchitis. Inspector Francis Cartwright arrived on March 20th as relief commander and Strickland was able to move down to the better climate at Tagish.((Jim Wallace, //Forty Mile to Bonanza: The North-West Mounted Police in the Klondike Gold Rush.// Calgary: Bunker to Bunker Publishing, 2000: 29-32, 33, 37, 83.))
	
Inspector Constantine allowed his NWMP officers to take time off to stake claims during the early days of the Klondike gold rush. Among those who reported doing well was Inspector Strickland who recovered between $44,000 and $130,000.((//Seattle Daily Times// (Seattle), 11 September 1897; //San Francisco Examiner// (San Francisco), 15 July 1897; //Victoria Daily Colonist// (Victoria), 18 July 1897 in Ed and Star Jones, //All That Glitters.// Whitehorse: Wolf Creek Books, 2005: 292, 497fn.)) 
	
Strickland left the Yukon in 1902 to join the 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles and fight in South Africa. They arrived to find that the war was over and the Canadian troops were shipped back home. Strickland resumed his command with the NWMP as the Officer Commanding at Prince Albert, Wood Mountain, and then Fort Saskatchewan where he died a sudden death of cardiac edema.((Mark Gaillard, “Inspector D’Arcy Strickland Remembered.” RCMP Veterans’ Association, 9 March 2018. 2019 website:  https://www.facebook.com/RCMPVets/posts/inspector-darcy-strickland-rememberedwhitehorse-yt-march-20-2018-one-hundred-and/1691918790869490/))