Gimli artist shows RCMP always getting their man

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Gimli artist Alec Baldwin, who is well-known for his portraits of dogs and bringing home medals from Special Olympics’ games, braved the excessive heat last week to paint a Royal Canadian Mounted Police mural on the Gimli seawall. Alec added a bit of humour to the scene and paid tribute to the ranks of female officers in the federal police service. The female Mountie on horseback is wearing the service’s trademark ceremonial scarlet tunic, Stetson hat and pair of yellow-striped jodhpurs (which denotes the cavalry). The police dogs are wearing high tech ballistic and stab vests and a criminal in a black and white horizontally striped prison uniform is shown running off the edge of the mural. The black and white prisoner uniform was common in the U.S. in the 1800s because it made criminals instantly identifiable. Alec completed the mural this week.

Patricia Barrett
Patricia Barrett
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