‘Historie Regina site
| - doubles as museum

“kept tourist secrets,

While it is open year: round tothe
public, the academy has no public
“accommodations. But it is. a pleasant
115-minute drive from downtown
* Regina, a city of some 200,000,
which offers an ample choice oft near-
_ by hotels and motels.

The Mounties provide free guid.

ed tours of their famed academy,
where visitors often yield to a troop.

of recruits precision-marching across
he depot to their next class.
~" Some 700 Mounties are expected
:to graduate, this year.after surcce ssful-
ly enduring «six. months : ‘of
“intense basic’ amp”
raining, ‘and - law. enforcement:
studies: Hand-t6-hand ‘combat,
smanship, detectiv
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ade seat defying : !
rdet in;

» “buildings:

In 1882, the training academy,
was established here and F with it a
legacy of pride, one that is palpable
from the rhythmic echo of marching
recruits, to the headstones of the
tree-lined cemetery where the graves
of more than 400 Mounties and their
families are located. —_

Walking the grounds araong’ the
barracks, the parade -hall, library,
classrooms and’ other’. red-bricked
where

denen genteel ‘honor, It is most evi!
ent in the Chapel, a wooden church -

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stained-glass. windows: portraying.
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of candles per

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‘few dozen - steps away,:
plays: the : world’
of «ROMP: memorabili
while its witty curators provide'a fas:
g°. history?
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Constabulary, ‘the Mounties
becz “se Royal -
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Atlantic to the Pacific,
Hollywood has’ ‘explolted, the

“thought of a as resolute:
«strength and integei
embodiment of Ernes Hemingway's.

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movies, including’ ‘Rose’ Marie, the:
- 1936 classic starring Nelson Eddy
and Jeanette MacDonald; co a woe-

ful B-tilm entitled: The: Canadian
Mounties vs. the Atomic Invaders, in
which Mounties wore fedoras.

Stetson — creation’ of New Jersey hat
maker John: B,’ Stetson” — scarlet:
tunic, breeches.
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globally . through .Disney

* cooperation wit ‘the: RCMP,

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Canada,” the. Los: Angeles ‘Times:

reported of the academ “
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prairie sky among the ‘chapel; ceme

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discover: the truth of the RCMP

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. congratulations to the RCMP. on ‘your new facility. :

We look forward to our continuing partnership.,

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