RCMP Veterans’ Association – Vancouver Division

      Veteran Ric Hall received some recent photographs of the “E” Division Pipe & Drum Band while they toured China.           According to Mike Guillemin, “it was a trip of a lifetime for 30 members of the RCMP E. Division Pipe Band based out of Surrey, BC.  To celebrate […]

        Veteran Windy Gale sent us this article which he transcribed for and it appeared in the 1964 edition of the Vancouver Division’s Magazine.         Retired Corporal Fred Bard (Reg.#4332) provided the following details to the editor of the Scarlet & Gold Magazine – Dear sir;- please find enclosed […]

        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 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 […]

      A new book has been written and now published on the “Highway of Tears” called “Obstruction Of Justice” by RCMP Veteran Ray Michalko.           “The Highway of Tears” is a lonely seven hundred kilometer stretch of road that winds through the Coast Mountains wilderness of British Columbia. Over […]

      Veteran Windy Gale send us the following article which appeared in the 43rd edition of the Vancouver Division’s Scarlet & Gold Magazine.         In the autumn of 1878 when it was learned that the Princess Louise, a daughter of Queen Victoria, was to come to Canada as the consort […]

      One thing is for certain when dealing with the history of the Force, when you write a story of interest there is always someone out there who can add more to it.         The following is just one example. Recently, I wrote an article on the mysterious white horse […]

        Veteran Windy Gale sent us this article which he transcribed from the 37th edition (1955) of the Vancouver Division’s Scarlet & Gold Magazine.           The Big Bend detachment, located in the Macleod Division in Southern Alberta, is probably one of the best known outposts in the West. […]

      Veteran Windy Gale forwarded us the following extract from the 44th edition of the “Scarlet & Gold” magazine of 1962 which he transcribed.  The noted magazine was published by the Vancouver Division of the RCMP Veterans’ Association.         The “Great Tribute” article was written by Sir Frederick William Haultain, Chief […]

      Veteran Ric Hall developed and provided us the following article for your reading pleasure.           Right off the top you are probably asking yourself what is a “The Caparisoned Horse”.   It is the practice of having a horse of a deceased military officer led in the funeral procession […]