War bride’s dream of meeting Mountie dressed in Red Serge comes true

VANCOUVER – A British Columbia woman’s dream of meeting a Mountie dressed in formal uniform has come true — 78 years after she first laid eyes on an RCMP officer in Red Serge in her native Scotland.

Jenny Stewart shared her secret wish with a staff member at the hospice where she lives in Port Alberni, and before she knew it a Mountie showed up to visit her.

Stewart first saw a Mountie at a fair in Glasgow as a 10-year-old girl and told a friend she’d one day move to Canada so she could meet an officer with the national force.

In 1946, she became a war bride when she married a Canadian soldier and moved to Saskatoon before moving to B.C. 12 years later.

Her husband died in the 1970s, and it wasn’t until this week that she met another man of her dreams — in the form of RCMP Const. Scott Macleod.

Stewart says she was tickled pink to finally talk to a Mountie because she’s loved those men in red for so long and doesn’t even know why.