RCMP History Practice Test

The main idea this question tests is the timeline of when provincial policing responsibilities were handed from the federal Royal North-West Mounted Police to Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The RNWMP served as the federal police across the West, but provinces began establishing or assuming their own police forces to handle local law enforcement. In Manitoba and Saskatchewan, that shift occurred in 1911, so the RNWMP was relieved of provincial policing duties then, while continuing to handle federal duties and other responsibilities until the RCMP consolidation in 1920. The other years don’t align with when these provinces moved to provincial policing: 1905 relates to when Saskatchewan and Manitoba became provinces, not to the transfer of policing; 1909 and 1917 fall outside the actual transition period cited in historical timelines for these provinces. So, 1911 is the best answer.