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Dirty money: Mounties look for contractor to handle horse poop

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57Chevy

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Dirty money: Mounties look for contractor to handle horse poop  ::)

Horse manure from the RCMP stables in Ottawa is the subject of a new government tender call for a bidder to haul the waste to the other end of the city.

The year-long sanitary collection contract, with two optional years, is worth up to $250,000.

“They produce an awful lot,” RCMP Insp. Marty Chesser said of the 96 horses. “Five to 12 times a day.”

The manure will be turned into fertilizer with help from Agriculture Canada officials, a move that is expected to save the RCMP $50,000 to $80,000, the Mounties said.

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What  ::)
Being a Cavalry Associated Para-Police
Force they can't clean up thier own mess???
Gee maybe they should give their recruit's
some extra iniative. Or maybe hang up the
borrowed Cavalry Uniform,,, The Musical ride
(borrowed) and revert to a Regular Police
Force... Turn over their 4 Legged friend's to
an actual Cavalry Regiment who will honour
their service and take care of them.. Quit
bitchin and grab a shovel/broom. Hmmmm
Any comment's/rebuttal's from my Cavalry
friend's will be addressed to me and me only.
Bold and Swift
Scoty B

 
Here's the listing in MERX:
.... The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has a requirement for the collection of horse manure and wood shavings from the RCMP Musical Ride Stables located at 1 Sandridge Road, Ottawa, Ontario. The Stables holds approximately 96 horses. Collection of waste will be done on an “as-and-when-requested” basis. The Contractor will be responsible for supplying two 20-yard containers to accommodate the waste; collection of the containers; disposal of the waste; cleaning of the containers; and returning the containers to the Stables ....
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Statement of work attached.
 
wildman0101 said:
What  ::)
Being a Cavalry Associated Para-Police
Force they can't clean up thier own mess???
Gee maybe they should give their recruit's
some extra iniative. Or maybe hang up the
borrowed Cavalry Uniform,,, The Musical ride
(borrowed) and revert to a Regular Police
Force... Turn over their 4 Legged friend's to
an actual Cavalry Regiment who will honour
their service and take care of them.. Quit
bitchin and grab a shovel/broom. Hmmmm
Any comment's/rebuttal's from my Cavalry
friend's will be addressed to me and me only.
Bold and Swift
Scoty B
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No one said anything about cleaning it up.

Horse manure from the RCMP stables in Ottawa is the subject of a new government tender call for a bidder to haul the waste to the other end of the city.
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Does the military own its own fleet of garbage trucks?
 
Clarification wr
The Mountie's were established as
our National Police force in 1920.
In 1873 during the wild west day's
Ottawa decided to establish a Po-
lice force (NWMP), along with the
allready established Dominion Po-
lice force.Those two National Police
force's were intergrated into our
now known RCMP.
During the 1800's the NWMP Po-
lice were formed and fashioned
after a Cavalry Regiment. Being as
this police force didn't have a police
uniform as thier own they adopted
a Cavalry uniform(Red Serge-Yellow
stripe)... Being a newly formed Po-
lice for circa 1800 the Regiment that
taught  then how to be calvary was
the Royal Canadian Dragoon's. In-
ding the Musical Ride.
Note: The RCD won thier first battle
honour during the rebellion.
As stated the RCMP became official
in 1920 to present. Being an old Cavalry
soldier who served with 2 Armoured
Cavalry Regiment's (8-CH/RCD) I know
what my Cavalry Cousin's are going thru.
Ive also heard thru the undergroud that
they should be disbanded... I can only say
this. Not on my watch..
My 
Scoty B  199.243.36.159
scoty b (aka the brat)
 
Oh no a canadian
Cavalry Dutie's(Horse)
Priority's
Mount
A) feed
B) water
C) groom
D) kit(tack,,saddle,,ect)
E) personal kit
1. uniform
2. water
3. ration's
4. weopen's
This is done at parade
start of the day,,,
halt parade during the day,,
end of day...
amoured corp soldier
ARMD MBT
First parade Crew(4)
Halt parade Crew(4)
All of the above
Just as a Cavalry(horse)
do my Cavalry cousin's
leave all their empty coffee,,
Timmies garbage in their
Cruiser or do they leave it.
Scoty B


 
Apparently there is quite a $hit load of horse manure considering:

If you've got a horse, you know manure happens. The average-size Dobbin produces approximately 40 pounds of horse manure per day. Multiply that by 30 days for a per-month total. Multiply that by 12 months, and you've got more than 7 tons of waste per year. If you have more than one horse, you're talking double-digit tonnage. Holy humus, Batman! What do you do with that pile of, er, stuff?

:deadhorse:  nope

--->Manure Management :nod:

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57 Chevy
copy
That's allota poop...
so i'm  :deadhorse:
righty-o
wr
confirm clarification.
57 OSONS
Scoty B
 
WR
Futher clarification
The fine thread of Canadian cavalry tradition to which our present day regiment and corps are legitimate heirs, can be traced back to shortly before the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759 when two troops of volunteer cavalry were raised among the young generation of Quebec. These young bloods owned their own horses and were allowed to equip themselves at their own expense. Splendid in uniforms of blue and silver, their sole purpose at the time was to wait upon the Governor and take part in the ceremonial parades. However, in the battle against the English, both on the Plains and at St. Foy, they distinguished themselves with gallantry performing valuable services in patrols and communications.

Nearly fifty years later, the Corps of Volunteer Cavalry was revived in Quebec City. Many of the young gentlemen who joined were descendants of the originals and were amongst the first to volunteer their services in the War of 1812 against the Americans. In the domestic troubles of 1837, the Corps again served in Canada in arduous and demanding duties, operating with an esprit de corps that rose above the differences in race and religion.

By 1855, the British, tired of providing an army to defend the colony already exercising independence of thought as well as action, decided to transfer the responsibility for defense to the colony itself by gradually withdrawing regular troops badly needed for  service elsewhere in  the world.  Consequently,  a bill was History of the RCDpassed in the Canadian Legislature in 1855 providing for a voluntary active militia. The Squadron of Quebec Volunteer cavalry was to become a part of a school of cavalry under the direction of a regiment of British Hussars serving in Quebec. It played an active role in the last of the Fenian raids and the suppression of civil disorder so that in 1879, by way of reward, the Squadron received permission from the Queen to be designated the Queen's Own Canadian Hussars.

No sooner had the US Civil War ended, then the Fenian raids (June 1866) were launched by what was grandly called the Irish Republican Army. Raised and equipped in the States by a firebrand Irishman, John O'Neil, who had been a cavalry officer in the Union Army, these raids revealed the deplorable weakness in Canadian defences.

A new Militia Act was passed in 1883 providing for a permanent force for instructional purposes to consist of "one troop of cavalry, three batteries of artillery, and not more than three companies of infantry, the whole strength of which shall not exceed seven hundred and fifty men".

Although arguably in existence prior to 1883, the Militia Act provides the direct lineage of the Royal Canadian Dragoons as the first-ever permanent Canadian Army unit raised and authorized by Canada as a nation. By 1892, the unit had adopted the name "Canadian Dragoons", the root of our name today.RETURN TO HOME PAGE Dragoon with horse at Quebec 1890.

So as you can seen the RCD's Cavalry root's go back as far as !759.
The RCMP was designated Para but was never an actual Cavalry Regt.
So our Seniority is 117 yr's.
This can be confirmed at the RCD website.
Scoty B OUT
 
Wildman,
              Interesting post about the Royal Canadian Dragoons. :salute:
It should be mentionned that the RCMP do have battle honors:
North West Canada,1885 
South Africa,1899 - 1902 
France and Flanders,1918 
Siberia,1919 
Europe,1939 - 1945

Predecessor Units included:
The North West Mounted Police 1873 - 1904 
Royal North West Mounted Police 1904 - 1920 

A few photos of interest attached.
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57Chevy,
Sorry mate I was the one floggin the dead horse,,, not you.  :salute:
Yes I agree with their battle honour's. They earned it. Great photo's
also including guidon. Just a note of interest below:

The RCMP's status as a regiment of dragoons was an honour granted to them by George V in 1921 for past service by Mounties during wartime, and did not signal an evolution into (or recognition as) a Canadian Forces unit. 

Getting back to my first post  Re: Gee,,, well that was a little bit
out of line to my Cavalry cousin's.. My apologie's.
WR I concur,,, they look after thier mount's.
Sorry my PVT PM seem's to be on fritz.
Anyway best regard's..
Bold and Swift
Scoty B
 
Our Cavalry Princess 8-CH
Gentleman RCMP

The foal that became a Canadian  and freewoman of the Village of Hampton.

A group of mechanics of  the 8th Hussars were working on some tanks in the darkness of the night of September 15, 1944 in Italy, when suddenly they heard a noise like a scream. On investigation, they came across a gaunt young foal of three or four months. The foal had been wounded in the leg and stomach and was half starved and bleeding. She had worn a path around the body of her dead mother. When they got the little filly back to the Hussar lines, they bandaged her wounds.  The men called her Princess Louise and they decided they were going to keep her. She became the Regimental Mascot of the 8th Hussars
The Princess seemed to sense that this Iron Horse Regiment had been a famous cavalry unit in years gone by and she was proud to bring this memory back to the soldiers.

On January 27, 1946, her Regiment came home to Sussex to a welcoming crowd, but the Princess had to be left behind when they left Holland. Finally in March she arrived in New York on a Dutch liner and was met by her good friend Trooper E.A. Jackson of St. Martins. She continued her journey to Saint John by train, where a civic reception was held at King Street East.

On March 28 the people of Hampton gathered at the Court House to welcome her. Magistrate Arthur J. Kelly presented Princess Louise with a certificate of Naturalization, changing her from an Italian to a Canadian. She was made a freewoman of the Village of Hampton and as such was entitled to roam at her will.

There have been many transitions since the introduction of the militia in Loyalist days. Lt. Col. John Saunders entertained the unit from 1868 to 1876 on his grounds at Fox Hill. For up to 16 days at a stretch, Fox Hill would become a military and social centre. The men ate rations of bread, meat, potatoes, tea, coffee, salt, pepper and barley for soup. They slept in bell tents, ten men to a tent, one blanket to man, with the good earth for a mattress. Their pay was 50 cents a day which made them two-thirds as valuable as the horse.

In 1879, the Marquis of Lorne, the Governor General and his wife Her Royal Highness, the Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, the 31-year-old fourth daughter of Queen Victoria paid their first visit to New Brunswick. While in Saint John, a detachment of soldiers on horseback, from the 8th Cavalry provided their escort. It was out of this contact that the idea came to seek permission to have the 8th Cavalry designated as the Regiment of the Princess Louise.

Over the years the camps were held in various places from Moncton to St. Andrews, but from 1891 Sussex was their permanent home for many years.


‘THE 8th HUSSARS' by Douglas How takes one on a journey through the daily horrors and trials of the Second World War back to the regimental organization in the Loyalist time period. He paints a picture of the good times and the bad times of war and of the necessity in years gone by to be prepared to defend New Brunswick.

Damn Cousin's (rcmp) Gee now you know where your Cavalry root's come from.

The attachment I added is the daughter of a WW2 Veteran. Copy..





 
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