RCMP Veterans’ Association – Vancouver Division

RCMP Veterans’ Association Veterans Helping Veterans and Their Families This information is being provided to all Association Members Sovereign’s Medal for Volunteers DESCRIPTION OF THE MEDAL The Medal for Volunteers consists of a silver circular medal that is 36 mm in diameter with a suspension ring. The obverse depicts a contemporary effigy of the Sovereign, […]

RCMP Veterans’ Golf Event – Grand Strand (Myrtle Beach area), South Carolina http://www.blackmoor.com/ Blackmoor Golf Course, 6100 Longwood Dr, Murrells Inlet, SC March 14, 2020 (Saturday) – SAVE THE DATE! 12:30 PM Shot Gun Start                                    18 Hole Scramble Event will be run RAIN OR SHINE (baring course closure due to storms) Following […]

RCMP Veterans’ Association Veterans Helping Veterans and Their Families This information is being provided to all Association Members Dear Association Members, A short while ago our new Executive Officer, Mike Cote drew my attention to a notice being circulated within Surrey Detachment by Sgt. Shane Stovern regarding a drop-in centre at the detachment office on […]

  RCMP Veterans’ Association Veterans Helping Veterans and Their Families This information is being provided to all Association Members Dear Association Members, We are very pleased to announce that our platinum sponsor, belairdirect. is expanding its group insurance coverage for members of our Association to British Columbia and Alberta, effective October 21, 2019. This expansion and […]

RCMP Veterans’ Association Veterans Helping Veterans and Their Families This information is being provided to all Association Members Kimberley Detachment Commander Receives Award Dear Association Members,The following article appeared in the Cranbrook Daily Townsman on October 15th., 2019.  Our collective hats are off to Okanagan Division for undertaking the awarding of this recognition to the […]

RCMP Veterans’ Association, Vancouver Division Notice of Upcoming General Meeting October 17, 2019 Hazelmere Golf and Country Club, 18150 8 Avenue, Surrey, B.C. Doors Open at 11:00 AM “Blamed and Broken – The Mounties and the Death of Robert Dziekanski” By Curt Petrovich   Earlier this summer, I had the opportunity to read the book […]

New Book: The Grey Zone   Don Easton is a 25-year veteran of the RCMP and worked as an undercover operative over a span of 20 years, which included 7 years working in an Intelligence Unit battling organized crime. Upon retirement, he has written a series of novels involving an undercover Mountie by the name 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 Sgt. Larry Burden ( #35982), who 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 […]

Vancouver Division sends out a BIG THANK YOU to Reg # 55501, John Fraser, AKA “Johnny Foxtrot”! Displayed in the Vancouver Division Veterans’ Office at Surrey Detachment is a collection of RCMP Quarterlies from 1933 to present.  Only the years 1950, 1951 and 1952 were missing. Just this past week, I have been in contact […]

2019 Campbell Valley Wine Run In support of Pacific Riding for Developing Abilities Donna Morse, Past President On September 22, 2019, the annual Campbell Valley Wine Run was held.  Unfortunately, this year, the weather was extremely rainy, but spirits weren’t dampened as we all had the opportunity to taste different varietals of wine from several […]