Primarily made to show off and experiment with the new 3-color Technicolor process and to support longer B&W feature films from the same studio, just as it's now included as an extra on the DVD of WB's The Life of Emile Zola (1937) starring Paul Muni.
Vitaphone production reels #8179-8180.
Prologue: "In the vast Northwest Territory the effective policing of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has long held the admiration of the civilized world. No finer law-enforcement agency exists anywhere. The Mountie is synonymous with justice, human sympathy and--Romance..."