Description: Regarding leaving the farm, joining the North-West Mounted Police, training in Toronto ( including a description of his uniform and riding habit), leaving Toronto, trip to Dufferin, Manitoba, getting typhoid fever, buying lots in Emerson, establishing Fort Pelly, trip to Winnipeg, meeting detachment from the west and accompanying them back to Dufferin.

Description: Consists of transcriptions of excerpts of letters from Will Parker, to his parents in England, describing North-West Mounted Police life in Western Canada. The transcripts are from William Parker: Mounted Police, published by Glenbow in 1973 (copyright held by Glenbow).