Very British in speech and mannerisms, dressed in khaki military style shirt, shorts, and bush ranger hat, with military laced boots.
Two groups of silhouetted men in ranger hats shove Mr. Evans and Mr. Soto onstage to dance out their ordeal.
Two of his ranger hats are on display at two Guinness World Exhibit Halls in New York City and South Carolina.
Along with the moose and the maple leaf, the scarlet-jacketed Mountie in his light-brown ranger hat has been a Canadian totem.
Under pressure to recruit new officers from among Canada's fast-growing Sikh population, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced this year that its Sikh members would be allowed to wear turbans in place of the ranger hats that have been worn with dress uniforms since the 1870's.
Last week a Member of Parliament for Calgary, the Alberta city that had its beginnings in a Mounties' fort, offered a petition in the House of Commons in Ottawa demanding that the ranger hat be maintained as a mandatory part of the dress uniform.
A man with a bushy mustache and long sideburns, wearing tigerstriped camouflage utilities typically worn by ARVN soldiers, sat with his ranger hat's brim turned up in Gabby Hayes fashion and concentrated his vigil on one spot of the valley far below him.
The cavalry left another legacy in the park, the ranger hat.