The Manitoba Government has declared February 1st Royal Canadian Mounted Police Day in Manitoba. Flin Flon RCMP Sergeant Mark Svaren says they’ll use the day as a teaching opportunity. He says they have been invited to take part in the Heritage Fair at Ecole McIsaac School tomorrow and they’re going to take that opportunity to educate our younger citizens there at the school on the history of the RCMP, everything from their beginnings in the march west up until today.
On February 1st 1920 our newly formed national police force formed by merging the North-West Mounted Police with the Dominion Police of Eastern Canada was officially named the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
