"Nothing more Canadian than an RCMP officer in red serge and a black bear," Gillis said. "Truly Canadian image to celebrate Canada 150."
The officer featured in the video, Sgt. Clayton Wilbern, told the CBC he was trying to find the owner of a lost wallet when a paramedic told him there a bear had been spotted in the area.
"It was heading towards a playground where there was a whole bunch of kids playing," Wilbern said. "So we tried to get it to go around the playground, which luckily we did...Hundreds of people were watching us as we were trying to get the poor little guy out."
Wilbern added he was dressed in the special red serge as part of an initiative by the RCMP to wear the uniform as often as possible while interacting with the public in celebration of Canada's 150th anniversary.
"It was very Canadian," he said.
Gillis was one of many tourists who couldn't pass up the opportunity to capture the "once-in-a-lifetime" sight.
"You never see a police officer in red serge with a black bear in the background," Gillis told Global News. "Sort of the old image of the police officer going through the wilderness in his red serge uniform and there's a wild bear in the background."
The spectacle eventually came to an end, as Wilbern managed to chase the bear back into the woods.
"This was the closest I've ever been, and this was just a baby bear, so it was pretty cool," he said.
