RCMP Veterans’ Association – Vancouver Division

        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 […]

        For this week, Ric Hall has selected the theme of this webpage as “the RCMP Riding Crop.”         Ric outlined “I was sitting around with a bunch of young pups at Surrey Detachment and we got to discussing the RCMP’s riding crops – of course – most had […]

      This tribute is to a young Royal Military College of Canada graduate who was attracted to the North West Mounted Police.  He served 30 years in the Force and later went on to become the 5th Lt. Governor of Alberta.       EARLY YEARS Philip Carteret Hill Primrose was born on […]

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

      The Spring 2015 edition of The Quarterly is now being distributed.           This edition includes:  Cover River Of Red Flows Through St. Albert by Brenda Cox and Mary Schlosser Features Standing Shoulder To Shoulder More Than A Man In Scarlet by Jodi Ann Eskritt, Curator RCMP Land Transportation […]

        It has now been 40 years since the first female members joined the RCMP. Many female members have distinguished themselves both within and outside the Force.       Veteran Jane Hall has developed the following article which highlights some of the struggles in accepting female members in the Force. Jane […]

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

        For this week’s Photo Corner, Ric has selected the theme of “1950: A milestone was achieved.”         On February 1, 1920, the Royal North-West Mounted Police took over the roles and responsibilities of the Dominion Police.  In so doing, the Force became the Canadian federal police agency responsible […]

      For this week’s Photo Corner, Ric has selected the photo theme of “RCMP Provost Corps.”           At the outbreak of World War II the Canadian Army was without any form of military police. On September 13, 1939, the RCMP requested and received permission to form a Provost Company […]