I was there in 1958. Best 9 months of my life.

I believe this video was done at the Ottawa Training location (N Division), with the water scenes filmed at the RCMP Long Island camp which is in south Ottawa to this day. As a kid, I went to the camp a handful of times. My Dad trained in Ottawa in 1958 and remained a member for nearly 4 decades. I don’t recognize him in the footage so perhaps this was a class before or after his own. Neat to see this, thanks for posting.

lots of this small snipped of training would be well learned still in today's rcmp curriculum! I am not sure if they still practice in an actual lake, but being in the exact atmosphere and setting an event might take place sharpens the mind and makes you less afraid if/when it actually does occur.

That was a different ear then today this training was good for back in that days. Really interesting video.

Very cool!

This is when the RCMP was actually respected!

what a nice video

This is soo cool, I'm wondering if the training of the 50"s would be good enough for today's world. It was the year I was born :)

Make Canada great again.

Cool

How about now? How they do their training??

@rupin In all fairness, the documentary was typical of the production style of the time. Very interesting to watch for historic reasons, though. (Note the absence of women at the RCMP at the time - it did not start recruiting women until 1974.)

@markojameow You're right

With the end of the war, the Force commenced a major recruiting drive. At the time, the qualifications to join the RCMP were as follows:

lol this is like the paul gross version of the mounty

Where was this?

@ericssson I'm a girl. Why shouldn't I become a cop if I were 20 years younger and slightly fitter physically? (Not that I'm overweight; I just have asthma, migraines, frequent earaches that make air travel uncomfortable, and could be considered a midget by old RCMP standards - at five feet, six inches.)

@ShrimpComedy They did in the past.

That revolver disarming exercise would be comical, if it weren't so sad. The last thing you'd do is raise your hands away from a gun shoved in your guts. Grab the damn thing while turning out of the line of fire.

haha..............whenever i watch old archive footage the people in the footage always seem way too happy.