RCMP: Old Photographs From North Vancouver Detachment

January 14, 2016

RCMP Peajacket with same brown belt (Sheldon Boles)

Retired Staff Rick Winslow of North Vancouver Detachment has retired from the Force and joined the North Vancouver Koffee Klatch.

Rick passed on some old photographs from North Vancouver Detachment.

October 19, 1962 - Photograph of RCMP Officer Douglas Oswald Forrest (Reg.#1130 - O.327) at the opening of the new North Vancouver Detachment (Source of photo -

October 19, 1962 – Photograph of RCMP Officer Douglas Oswald Forrest (Reg.#1130 – O.327) at the opening of the new North Vancouver Detachment (Source of photo -Rick Winslow).

Douglas Forrest retired from the Force on November 7, 1967 at the rank of Assistant Commissioner. In retirement, he came a life member with the Toronto Division of the RCMP Veterans’ Association. He passed away in 1987. His son James Forrest (Reg.#25858) would follow in his father’s footsteps and joined the Force on June 29, 1967.

1970 Photograph of RCMP members marching in North Vancouver (Source of photo -

1970 Photograph of RCMP members marching in North Vancouver (Source of photo -Rick Winslow).

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Distinguished Member Of The Force – Stuart Milton Hodgson

Larry Burden’s This Day In The RCMP

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