And thanks for adding your real-life experiences to this discussion. The romantic depiction of the Mounties in popular fiction is fun but it sounds like you have the real score.

Kate

I took in the slide show and was blown away.

First, I am not a Mountie. I now live in Ottawa, Canada and pass the
national headquarters of the RCMP almost daily.

During my time as a crime reporter in Alberta with the Calgary Herald
I covered the RCMP, the real RCMP. I covered them on some of their toughest cases. Heart-breaking cases.

No they did not always “get their man.” That’s not their motto, that’s a myth from
days gone by - a Montana newspaper, I think, that Hollywood championed.
I covered the murders of Mounties, I covered their funerals and I covered some of
their greatest triumphs. Clearing cases that, on the surface, seemed damned near
impossible.

I also spent time at the famed RCMP Training Academy, “depot” in Regina and patrolled with young members in Nunavut the newest territory.

I have a sense of the force’s history and the reality that it is today.

That said, I quite enjoyed the romanticized depiction of the RCMP. The colour and artwork was evocative of Rockwell, it also took me back to Holling C. Holling’s work in Paddle-to-the-Sea.

If you have the time, take it in. It is really quite beautiful, a poetic celebration of an ideal that is befitting the honour and code the real members abide by every day
since the force came to be.

Thank you, Kate
Rick

“Honor (um, I mean, honour) our northern neighbors”

Of course you mean *neighbours* too!