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 […]

    For the RCMP Centennial in 1973, RCMP Veteran Thomas Grant Galloway Raisbeck provided an account of his time in the RCMP to the Edmonton Journal newspaper.  Tom’s story is provided below for your reading pleasure.         Background Details: Tom was born on June 14, 1910 at Taber Alberta and joined […]

        Gordon Cameron spent his entire life in the service to his community.  In 1980, he was awarded the Order of Canada.           EARLY YEARS Gordon Irwin Cameron was born on January 22, 1900 at Trois-Riveres Quebec.  The family moved to Ottawa in 1912 after Gordon’s father passed […]

        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 […]

        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 […]

      “You have come along way baby!” In the early days of the 1900s the Royal North West Mounted Police was still truly the “Mounted Police” virtually all work and patrols were conducted on horseback. Horses were abundant in detachment stables across the Dominion.       The Force did not acquire its […]

    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 […]

  Our website normally posts new books that are either fictional or non-fiction accounts of the RCMP or its members. Most are written by retired members and we are committed to supporting them. In keeping with that theme of support, we have a new book to announce, but this one is considerably different than our […]

        As Ric reviews 1930s issues of the The Quarterly, it is interest to examine the old advertisements which was a component of early editions.       Ric has included some of these old advertisements for viewing pleasure and reflecting on how times have changed.   It is unfortunate that the […]

      Veteran Ric Hall sent us the following information and is seeking to identify the unknown RCMP member.  Photograph was taken in 1956 in Vancouver, B.C.         Many of us growing up in Vancouver can remember walking down Granville Street, when it was a family outing, and having your picture […]