We stopped in Regina en route to Brandon and had a great visit at Canada’s Depot. This was the RCMP museum which is on the Depot base. The museum was a great depiction of the history of the Mounted Police. There was even a section where you could test your ability to solve a crime.
Every RCMP officer comes to The Depot to train before being posted in Canada and abroad. Interestingly Barb had been accepted to the RCMP in September 1981 and would have come here to train, however she chose to stay in Montreal to marry and continue her new career at BMO Bank of Montreal. When asked if she has any regrets Barb answers “of course not as I wouldn’t have Vanessa and Michelle had I come to Regina”.
The police dog in the pic with Lori is named Indie, a failed RCMP dog who was apparently too friendly. She was indeed friendly and really only wanted to say hello and play with her rope toy. We get why she failed to be in the line of duty lol. So now she is a mascot at the museum. The horse in front of the museum was covered in flora, it was beautiful.
A highlight of Brandon Manitoba was staying in the familiar campground we had enjoyed on our initial travel out west, Meadowlark Campground. An even bigger highlight was taking an uber out for dinner and going to a mutual favourite restaurant – The Keg. As always, they asked if we were celebrating anything. We were so excited to be dining out we said yes “our friendship and travels together”. Well of course that necessitated their offer of free dessert on the house. Well Barb is in love with Billy Miner pie so that was the order. Well if you can believe this, there was no Billy miner pie left. What a calamity. We were now experiencing another ‘gate’. Not the ‘hashbrowngate’ the last time we were in town, but worse ‘Billyminerpiegate’. Fortunately we were so full from our great steaks and J.Lohr we were able to console ourselves that we didn’t need dessert anyway and left the restaurant laughing hysterically at our food ‘gates’ when in Brandon!