When Ogilvie returned to the Yukon five years later as part of an international team of surveyors working on the Canada-Alaska boundary, he judged that the time had come for the government to establish its authority. Partly because of his urgings, Ottawa sent an advance party of North-West Mounted Police to the Yukon the next year, 1894, and a resident force in 1895.
Also in 1895 the Canadian government recognized Ogilvie's growing reputation by offering him the new position of Agent-General of the Yukon Territory. Ogilvie hesitated because his second son had died of fever a year earlier in his absence, and he wanted to be with his family.
