James Farquharson Macleod

 Commissioner of the North-West Mounted Police, member of the NWT Council and judge, Macleod was a respected and popular figure in the southwestern prairies. Educated in Ontario, he practised law near Bowmanville, Ont, in the 1860s. He served as brigade major with the Wolseley expedition in 1870.

Joining the police as a superintendent, he was assistant commissioner 1874-75. He resigned to become a stipendiary magistrate, but returned as commissioner in 1876. He founded Fort Macleod, suppressed the whisky traffic and, having won the confidence of the Blackfoot chiefs, negotiated Treaty 7. Nevertheless, he lost the confidence of the government and resigned in 1880. He continued to act as a magistrate and in 1887 was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of the NWT.