Mountie Shows

When my son was around 8 or 9 years of age, we lived in a country area. A neighbouring country community was holding their annual fair; and it was announced the RCMP Musical Ride would be performing! The Musical Ride is a show on horseback. The date happened to be a "Father's Day" Sunday! At the time, I was very happy for my son's sake since his own dad lived too far away to visit. And it was also nice the RCMP were willing to come to such a small place--even though there was a somewhat bigger city nearby [more people were able to attend if they wished to]. We went to the fair and the show, and saw friends there; and it was a wonderful day--in the open air--to see the horse and Mountie show! Later, I made some small posters of photos I took and they hung in my son's room for a while. *** Have just found out from the Internet that the Mounties have been performing for many decades, including at the world fair in New York in 1939. *** There was a Canadian/American writer and his writer wife who spent time in both Ontario and New York. They had a summer home a little north of Belleville, Ontario. If I recall, the wife had written some children's books, including "Little Susannah and the Mounties," [something like that] which was made into a movie with child actress, Shirley Temple. *** When I was living in Belleville, not too long ago, some of my contacts were skeptical and said the Mounties weren't planning to pay me for my writing or anything. [They were people who should have known better, in my opinion.] And I said to them, "What do you mean they won't pay!?" When I saw evidence like the above [Musical Ride and the book/film], I had to have some hope! [The hospital people around here might like to say I'm "off."--The above doesn't provide evidence in my favour, etc.--But they're not going to dampen my spirits! I had faith in the Mounties, in general, for one thing....]