 While Winnipeg was protected by the massive floodway built after the 1950 flood, the farming communities to the south were largely unprotected.Within an hour of the call for assistance, the Camerons had assembled and dispatched troops to augment 2 Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI) operating inside the ring dyke around Morris, Manitoba.In the 1980s the role of the Militia was once more re-defined.