RCMP Veterans’ Association – Vancouver Division

      The history of Force Veterans conducting gravesite inspections dates back to a Macleod Gazette newspaper article published on May 17, 1901 which was submitted by NWMP Veterans who wanted to organize an association:         This news articles outlined some fundamental principles which has continues to this day: Comrades – […]

        Back on August 3, 2016, we posted a webpage article entitled “NWMP John Herron Helped Organize Prince Louise Dragoon Guards” – READ ARTICLE HERE.         Based on this article, Veteran Dennis Ratcliffe sent us a message outlining that he was a member of this regiment prior to joining […]

  One of the things that has been a real pleasure for me since I began submitting articles and photographs to the Vancouver Division of the RCMP Veterans’ Association web site is being re-connected with names and faces from the past and people who are on the outside of the Force but have an interest […]

        Veteran Windy Gale transcribed and sent to us this article which first appeared in the 1933 edition of the Vancouver Division’s Scarlet & Gold Magazine.         RCMP Veteran Corporal Robert Gordon Mathews submitted the following information to the editor of the Scarlet & Gold Magazine: OLD ACQUAINTANCES RENEWED […]

      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 […]

  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 […]

      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 […]