RCMP Veterans’ Association – Vancouver Division

        For this week, Ric Hall has sent to us some RCMP trivia and question for our readers.         According to the July 1936 RCMP Quarterly – “A new departure in training is being tested this summer, sixty recruits, from “Depot” having been attached to “F” and “K” Divisions, […]

      Veteran Ric Hall has undertaken an effort to review the early North West Mounted Police Annual Reports to the Canadian government.  In so doing, he has provided some of the notable details below for your reading pleasure.       In May 1873 the Canadian Parliament passed an act to provide for […]

        Ric Hall explores the old Reports of the North West Mounted Police and discovers some interesting historical perspectives.  We have included some of Ric’s discoveries in this webpage.       More skimming through some of the Commissioner’s annual reports from 1874-1886….not much has changed, transpose horses for cars, kit and […]

      Photography was just coming into use with the creation of the Force back in 1873.           Since that time, Force members have been photographed in different locations and situations. Photographs on paper are items that don’t wear well with time.  So many photographs have been discarded and the […]

    Veterans Tom Quilley and Dick Hawkshaw forwarded an internet link to an amazing account of the early years of the Force. Noted historical account was told by Frederick Bagley who joined the North-West Mounted Police at the age of 15 years old and was one of the original 300 members who participated in […]