The NWMP Con't...

Alfred Hamilton was elected to the Montana Territorial legislature. Donald W. Davis, who preceded Akers as manager of the Fort, remained in Southern Alberta and was elected member of Parliament, serving two terms from 1887 to 1896. Dave Akers purchased the Fort and continued trading until the arrival of the railway.. Akers was shot dead in 1893 by his partner Tom Purcell because of an argument over cattle ownership. Jerry Potts was involved in treaty negotiations in 1877 with the Blackfoot and allied tribes. He died in 1896 and was buried with full military honours in the police graveyard in Fort Macleod. Commissioner Macleod commented on Potts' career -

As scout and guide, I have never met his equal he had none in neither the northwest nor in the states to the south.

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