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: […]

        Based on last week’s photo theme of “member’s children growing up surrounded by all the RCMP stuff,” Ric has received several email responses with photographs.       The uniform of the RCMP has been a very familiar component to a member’s family.  To the  family members, it seems their mountie […]

        The Vancouver Division continues to provide financial support to the Pacific Riding For Developing Abilities (PRDA).         At a recent Executive Committee presentation to PRDA, their Executive Director Michelle Meacher outlined one of the many success stories of their therapeutic riding program.  Upon hearing  of this recent success, […]

        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 […]

        For this week, Ric Hall has selected the photo theme of “Marilyn Monroe and The RCMP.”         In our July 11th, 2014 edition of the RCMP Veterans Communique, we sought the assistance of RCMP Veterans to identify the RCMP Corporal photographed with Marilyn Monroe during the filming of […]

          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 #35982 Sgt. Larry Burden who served in “E” Division for 20 years has spent over ten years researching and summarizing these achievements […]

        Over the past few weeks, we have received many photographs taken by Veterans and internet links to some amazing photos.         Based on our review of these photos, we have selected the following as being the top ten.  These images are provided for your viewing pleasure. 1) Veteran […]

        Over the past week, we have searched for the most recent and notable news stories relating to the topic of retirement travel.       Based on our search, we have selected the following articles for your reading pleasure. GENERAL How to Make Your Travel Meaningful – Today we are appearing […]

      On Saturday (June 21, 2014), the Cloverdale Branch 6 of the Royal Canadian Legion had their open house to promote interest in the Legion.           The open house included 40-50 different operational and historical military vehicles for the public to view. Vehicles included: Russian T-55 tank; American M4A2E8 […]