RCMP Veterans’ Association – Vancouver Division

      With the exception of his first two years in the Force, John Stolarski spent his entire career as a Police Dog Services handler.         Throughout this career, John clipped newspaper articles about members who he had worked with. Despite the fact that John has passed away, his family has […]

      Regardless of the period of time, all RCMP members have one thing in common – their basic training at “Depot” Division.  We have included below a perspective of “Depot” from 1946 and changes thereafter.       During World War II, the strength of the Force had been seriously depleted with many […]

    Veteran Bob Henderson would like the assistance of other Veterans to identify the two RCMP members photographed with three World War II German prisoners-of-war.           Photograph was probably taken in 1946 at Medicine Hat Alberta. The three Germans (left to right): Adolf Kratz, Werner Schwalb and Johannes Wittinger.  They […]

      On Friday June 5, 2015, an anonymous person left a 8×10 glossy picture in an envelope at the front counter of Surrey Detachment for Ric Hall.         According to Ric “it is a great picture, unfortunately, there is no name of who left it and no identity of the member […]

        With the exception of his first two years in the Force, John Stolarski spent his entire career as a Police Dog Services handler.         Throughout this career, John clipped newspaper articles about members who he had worked with. Despite the fact that John has passed away, his family […]

  As a someone who spent a few years as a Drill Instructor at “Depot,” albeit it does seem like a hundred years ago, and having been involved with many parades over the ensuing years and the same goes for many like me, when preparing troops for parade the eyes always do a quick check […]

    As has been the practise in small Canadian communities, RCMP members have been apart of the official opening of community buildings.           Cpl. Sean Chiddenton of the RCMP “Depot” Communications and Management Services provided the following photograph to Ric Hall. This is a colourized photo appears to be Constables […]

        With the exception of his first two years in the Force, John Stolarski spent his entire career as a Police Dog Services handler.         Throughout this career, John clipped newspaper articles about members who he had worked with. Despite the fact that John has passed away, his family […]

      Another Case Solved on behalf of Her Majesty The Queen!             Recently we reached out to our Veterans to see if they could help identify two members in a photograph taken of then Princess Elizabeth when she visited Canada in 1951 filling in for her ailing father […]

      Veteran Ric Hall sent us this photograph and asking Veterans to help identify the two RCMP members in the photograph.           I received the attached photograph from Dan Lemiuex. Based on the fur coat and hat found in other photos this was probably then “Princess Elizabeth” on her […]