RCMP Veterans’ Association – Vancouver Division

      In a letter to the Right Honourable Minister of the Interior in Ottawa dated November 17, 1880, Commissioner Acheson Gosford Irvine provided his assessment of performance evaluation of North West Mounted Police Officers under his command.       His letter and comments are included below: Sir, I have the honour to […]

      Veteran Ric Hall discovered the photograph of a Royal North West Mounted Police (RNWMP) member on the RCMP Heritage Centre website.  Only indication of who this member was  is a notation of his Force regimental number was 7226.       Based on this limited information, a quick historical research was undertaken. […]

        Ric Hall explores the old Reports of the North West Mounted Police and discovers some interesting historical perspectives.  We have included some of Ric’s discoveries in this webpage.       More skimming through some of the Commissioner’s annual reports from 1874-1886….not much has changed, transpose horses for cars, kit and […]

      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 […]

      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 […]

        For this week, Ric Hall is providing a bit of “Depot” Drill Instructor history and the creation of the “Short-Box.”         This short story goes back in time, it started in 1975 and took on a life again in 2000. In view of this being the 40th Anniversary […]

        Barbara Wood being a member of the first RCMP female member troop recounts her experiences.         It was around the age of eight when Barb Alexander became enthralled with becoming a Mountie. The time was the early 1960s in Fort St. John, B.C., a rough oil town in […]

      A Royal Military College graduate who joined the North West Mounted Police and was later killed in battle during the Boer War in South Africa.           EARLY LIFE Thomas Wellington Chalmers was born on October 14, 1862 in Adolphustown Ontario.  His father earned a living sailing on Lake […]

        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 […]

        Veteran Bill Sedler forwarded to us an old news article written by Frank G. Carpenter and appeared in the Boston Sunday Globe – August 27, 1916.       The articles outlines duties and responsibilities of the Royal North West Mounted Police in the Canadian far north.  This article has been included […]