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Two RCMP officers in the Northwest Territories took to the ice in full uniform to play shinny in one of the birthplaces of hockey.
Constables Neal Machek and Jason Ellefsen laced up their skates wearing their red surges on Great Bear Lake, near Deline, NWT.
A video was captured of the mounties taking their strides on the frozen lake.
Deline, formally known as Fort Franklin, was a trading post of the Hudson’s Bay Company, and is the location of one of the earliest games of hockey.
Explorer Sir John Franklin, namesake of the trading post, had written journal entries of men playing ice sports similar to what is now called hockey.
As the video describes, the mounties laced up the skates where hockey has been played since 1825.