Tipple Tower Drinking Game

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The lakeside city of Regina – home not only to the RCMP’s training centre but also the beautiful 2,300-acre Wascana Park and its striking First Nations University – awaits after another contemplative five-hour haul through mesmerising prairie country.

The area’s geology preserved thousands of dinosaur fossils, which still emerge on a weekly basis, and it feels like you’re in Jurassic Park; they even call it the “world’s dinosaur capital”. Get close to some of the finest finds at the Royal Tyrrell Museum. There are no direct flights to Winnipeg from the UK; travellers need to connect via Toronto or Calgary with one of the following airlines: Air Canada ( aircanada.com), British Airways ( ba.com), Westjet ( westjet.com), or Air Transat ( airtransat.com). Useful informationThat evening, as we walked home to the boarding-house, we saw a dozen men walk slowly from the Company Hospital carrying on their shoulders a long white-pine box. Perhaps he had hoped some day to return to his village; perhaps he sent monthly remittances to his family in some obscure town in the Croatian highlands; or perhaps he had come alone, seeking a fortune in a new land. IV In the early 20th century, mine operators began using conveyor belts to load coal and ores into railroad cars, eliminating the use of mine cars. [5] At some mines the conveyor loading facility is still referred to as a "tipple".

I’m halfway through a road trip across the Canadian prairies, following the trail of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as they prepare to celebrate their centenary next year. It is natural that a mine should have its superstitions. The darkness of the underworld, the silence, the long hours of solitary work, are all conditions ideal to the birth of superstition; and when the workmen are drawn from many nationalities, it is again but natural that the same should be true of their superstitions. The legend began in 1873 when the Canadian government – alarmed at the lawlessness of whiskey, bison and wolf traders and their corrupting influence on indigenous tribes across the newly acquired Northwest Territories – formed the North West Mounted Police. There’s now only 166 miles of the Trans-Canada between us and our final stop, Winnipeg. The city is home to the powerful Canadian Museum of Human Rights, FortWhyte Alive’s 640-acre park housing its own bison herd and the inspirational Feast Café Bistro run by First Nation campaigner Christa Bruneau-Guenther. At Portage Avenue is a rather poignant statue dedicated to Mounties who lost their lives in the line of duty. Alternatively the nearby coal tower can be entered (and exited) through roundabout paths. The interior is similar in temperature stability to the train station, however, the coal tipple also has chance to spawn some rarer items, such as a Bear Skin Bedroll, as well as more food and materials to break down.

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It was usually between four and five in the morning when we left the mine. As we stepped from the hoist and left behind us the confining darkness, the smoky air, and the sense of oppression and silence of the mine below, the soft, fresh morning air in the early dawn, or sometimes the cool rain, seemed never more refreshing. One does not notice the silence of a mine so much upon leaving the noise of the outer world and entering the maze of tunnels on the day’s work, as when stepping off the hoist in the early morning hours when the world is almost still: the sudden sense of sound and of living things emphasizes, by contrast, the silence of the underworld. There is a noise of life, and the very motion of the air seems to carry sounds. A dog barking half a mile away in the sleeping town sounds loud and friendly, and there seems to be a sudden clamor that is almost bewildering. V