RCMP Veterans’ Association – Vancouver Division

        In the spirit of nostalgia, Veteran Ron Mangan forward us the two following photograph for the interest of other retired members.       Ron points out “The Powell River Detachment will soon be celebrating 25 years in their new location on Barnet Avenue (opened in 1990).  My guess would be […]

      Veteran Jack Cronkhite is seeking to identify RCMP officers in the photograph below.  He suspects that the photograph is that of officers from “Depot” Division, “F” Division and the Regina Crime Lab.           The photograph is below: Veteran Jack Cronkhite has identified some of these officers as follows: […]

        Throughout his career in the Force (1960 – 1995), Veteran Barry Bradley developed a newspaper scrapebook containing notable news stories about the RCMP in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia.     Each week, we will post three or four of these old newspaper clippings for the interest of Veterans and […]

        A few weeks ago, Ric had a photo theme of “Force cannons at ‘Depot’ Division.”  Since that time, he has received many more photographs with members being photographed by one of the cannons.       The photographs are included below for  your viewing pleasure. Vancouver Police Veteran Bob Young sent […]

        Throughout his career in the Force (1960 – 1995), Veteran Barry Bradley developed a newspaper scrapebook containing notable news stories about the RCMP in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia.     Each week, we will post three or four of these old newspaper clippings for the interest of Veterans and […]

    On September 8, 1935, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police unveiled the Force’s Cenotaph which is situated on the west side of Sleigh Square at “Depot” Division in Regina.  At the time of the unveiling, the Cenotaph contained the names of 48 members who had died in the line of duty.       […]

        For this week, Ric Hall has selected the photo theme of “Veteran Fred Stark’s time at “Depot” Division in 1962.”         Over the past week, Ric has received some amazing old Force photographs from RCMP Veteran Fred Stark (Reg. #22248 – O.1392) With regards to the following photograph, […]

        Throughout his career in the Force (1960 – 1995), Veteran Barry Bradley developed a newspaper scrapebook containing notable news stories about the RCMP in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia.     Each week, we will post three or four of these old newspaper clippings for the interest of Veterans and […]

    The achievements and contributions of the Force have been built upon the individual contributions of many past Veterans. These contributions have largely been forgotten.           Veteran Sgt. Larry Burden ( #35982) served in “E” Division for 20 years has spent over ten years researching and summarizing these achievements by […]

        Throughout his career in the Force (1960 – 1995), Veteran Barry Bradley developed a newspaper scrapebook containing notable news stories about the RCMP in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia.     Each week, we will post three or four of these old newspaper clippings for the interest of Veterans and […]