In December of 1914, Constable Buck of the Royal North West Mounted Police was in Aneroid on business, staying at the Aneroid Hotel.   Newly married just two weeks before, Buck wanted to visit his good friend Bertrand Gossett who worked at the hotel.   The two men were both from nearby Vanscoy.   Once he was off duty, the policeman went into the hotel bar to see Gossett, who was working as the bartender.   Gossett asked his friend if he could see his gun.   Constable Buck took off his belt and holster and laid them on the bar.   As he took his gun from its holster and passed it across the counter, the gun discharged.   Gossett fell to the floor behind the bar, killed instantly by a gunshot wound to his head.

Historical information courtesy of Joan Champ