RCMP Veterans’ Association – Vancouver Division

      Our current officer rank badges were first issued around 1876 based on the British Army rank system for officers.  Did you know that the diamond, some call it a star and others refer to it as a “pip”, used with the Supt., C/Supt., Ass’t Comm’r and Comm’r rank is a representation of the Military […]

    Veteran Sgt. Larry Burden ( #35982) served in “E” Division for 20 years has spent over ten years researching and summarizing these achievements by specific date. Nearly every day, Larry sends out an email message with a selection from his work in progress manuscript “This Day In The RCMP” to individuals interested in […]

        Recently, we received the following question from David Colitis:           I recently came across a question dated January 2015 regarding Sam Browne belts and the wearing of them – namely, should the strap be over the right or the left shoulder. I was a commissioned officer in […]

  Veteran Windy Gale sent us the following article which first appeared in our Vancouver Division’s Scarlet & Gold magazine – 1955 edition (1955) Time waits on no man, but has an accommodating way of checking up occasionally, while the seed pod of reminiscence sprouts beneath thearm, rich humus of a fellow’s memory. Irvin S. […]

        Veteran Windy Gale sent us the following article which appeared in our 53rd edition of the Vancouver Division’s Scarlet and Gold Magazine in 1971.           FOLLOWING AN APPEAL FOR HELP, INSPECTOR DENNY La NAUZE WITH CONSTABLES WITHERS AND WIGHT LEFT FORT NORMAN IN MAY 1915. 14 MONTHS […]

          Veteran Ric Hall sent us the following information and photographs for the interest of our website visitors.       Recently we did an article on the “Mysterious White Horse” that popped up in several old photographs taken in Vancouver in the 1920s. I was under the illusion that the […]

        Over the past week, we have received many submitted photos from various Veteran living in many parts of Canada.         Based on our review of these photos, we have selected the following as being the top ten.  Our Association does not support any products contained within these photos. […]

      Veteran Steve Gibson has discovered some old photographs of the early days of Vancouver.           On March 1, 1923, world famous escape artist Harry Houdini, who was in Vancouver as part of a vaudeville show performing at the Orpheum Theatre, took up a challenge to be hoisted high […]

      Ric has received the following photographs from RCMP C/S/M Darren Campbell.           Martine Courage from the Pony Express outlined: “While having tea with the Queen is often said in jest, this year, some lucky members of the Musical Ride got to do just that. The famed troop was […]

        Veteran Windy Gale sent us the following article which was written by Charles Whitehead (Reg.#1577) Whitehead and appeared in the 5th edition (1923) of the Vancouver Division – RCMP Veterans’ Association’s Scarlet & Gold Magazine.     Retired Sergeant Charles Arthur William Whitehead (Reg.#1577) joined the Force on August 12, 1885 […]