RCMP Veterans’ Association – Vancouver Division

Click on the link below to view the poster for Cst. Rick O’Brien’s Joint Forces Ball Hockey Memorial Jamboree – May 25, 2024  

David Grant Patterson JULY 12, 1940 – FEBRUARY 1, 2024 A memorial service for ret’d S/Sgt David Patterson will be held Saturday, March 2, at 1130 hrs at the Crescent Beach Legion Hall at 2643 128th StSurrey.  Dave passed peacefully after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s on February 1, aged 83. All friends and former […]

” Good day I’m Gerry McMillan, a RCMP Chaplain in ‘O’ Division. I had a close cousin in the RCMP. His name was Constable John Brian Baldwinson. He served in ‘E’Division in the Whiterock, Burnaby  Surrey BC area during the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. I will never forget the phone call I received on […]

Good afternoon and Happy New Year; I am Michelle Merry, the current RCMP E Div pipe band executive president.  I’m also the bass drummer for the band. I am new in this role and excited about the band year upcoming.  We are in the planning stages of our Scotch Tasting event which has been a […]

Click on the link below to read the RCMP Veterans’ Association, Vancouver Division December 2023 Newsletter.

View this email in your browser. What would an Alberta Pension Plan mean for the CPP? Dear Ronald, On Wednesday, Nov. 29 at 11 a.m. MST, the National Association of Federal Retirees will be hosting a webinar about the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and what it could mean for Alberta to leave and create its […]

Below and attached is information about the settlement of Class Action against Veterans’ Affairs Canada (VAC) to settle the underpayment of VAC Disability Benefits. It may be beneficial to include this in the next Newsletter. Every RCMP & Military Veteran who is receiving a VAC Disability Pension will be paid by VAC in the usual […]

Three years ago, I wrote of about the “Silent Sentinels of Depot” (see http://www.rcmpveteransvancouver.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/The-Silent-Sentinels-of-Depot.pdf) universally known in RCMP speak as the “flagpole”. It was known that the flagpole that stood from 1943 to sometime in the 1980s was raised by the members of “P” Troop 1943. At the time of writing my story I could […]