Royal Canadien Mounted Police Academy (Regina Canada)
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Training academy of one of Canada’s most recognizable symbols
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“There isn’t a Force the world over/Like the Scarlet, the Gold, and the Blue.” Bertram Boutlier, “The Recruit” (1945)
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“The square-jawed Mountie in red coat, jodhpurs, and broad-brimmed Stetson hat is a Canadian as maple syrup. It was on the western edge of Regina, capital of the prairie province of Saskatchewan, that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) developed its from and function – a cross between a ceremonial cavalry, national police force, and the FBI.
The site was originally known as Depot Division, but was later renamed RCMP Academy to better reflect its primary function as a training facility (which it has been since 1885, with some 46,000 RCMP cadets graduating), and on a visit here you can see them marching in formation or jogging. The huge 12-acre (5-ha) site has nearly fifty buildings, including the impressive red-roofed headquarters, a mess hall, drill hall, forensic lab, firearms complex, “town site” for simulated policing scenarios, self-defense gym, fitness center, cemetery (where rebel leader-politician Louis Riel is buried), and the chapel set before Sleigh Square – the “heart of the academy” and site of the tourist-attracting Sergeant Major’s Parade and the Sunset Retreat Ceremony . . . “(JH – Historic Sites)
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