The Royal Canadian Mounted Police's Musical Ride

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All of the moves are in harmony and in perfect time with the music. “*A single horse and rider in motion is a wonderful sight,” but it becomes even more impressive when you realize that it's a unit of horses and riders moving as one. Between the black horses, red tunics, and the awe of the crowd, it can only mean one thing: the horses and riders must be the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's Musical Ride. The Musical Ride has evolved over so many years and it stands for so much that we, as Canadians, value. Also, the Ride is something that we are proud to call our own and have as a positive image for the rest of the world to know Canada by.

Since a serious need for law and order arose in Western Canada in 1873, Prime Minister Macdonald’s Conservatives brought that needed law to the West in after the Cypress Hills incident, when a group of Canadian Natives were killed by Canadian and American trappers and traders. Macdonald used the Irish constabulary as a model for this new police force, the new force was called the North West Mounted Police (NWMP), and they were a force to be reckoned with. The motto for the mounted Police was “Maintiens le droit” (Maintain the Right). No one is really sure how this became the motto for the NWMP because most of the early records were destroyed by a major fire in 1897. The motto however, is very fitting because that is exactly what the mounted Police did; they maintained the right for law and order. In June of 1904, the NWMP was renamed the Royal North-West Mounted Police, and later, in February, 1920, the name was changed yet again to what it is today; the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). Who would have thought that nearly a hundred years and countless Police commissioners and Prim...

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... a team. Nothing is more Canadian and nothing makes me happier as a Canadian then being part of the thunderous applause that follows another stunning 100% genuine Canadian performance from the Musical Ride.

Works Cited

Arnold, Phyllis Penny Clark and Ken Westerlund: Canada Revisited 8 Scarborough, Ontario: Arnold

Publishing Ltd., 2000

-Cooper, Monique and Joel walker: The Spirit of the Ride. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Heartland associates

Inc., 2007.

-Newhouse, Maxwell: The RCMP Musical Ride. Toronto, Ontario: Tundra books, 2004.

-*Government, Canadian: “Royal Canadian Mounted Police.” www.rcmp.gc.ca. Service Canada, 2007.

-Huggett, Melanie. “The RCMP Musical Ride.” www.horsejournals.com. Horse Community Journals Inc., Feb. 2010

-News, CBC. “5 Facts about the RCMP Musical Ride.” www.cbc.ca/news/rcmpmusicalride. CBC News, July 2013.

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