Past & Current Presidents & Secretaries
In the early Spring of 1913, some of the Force’s Old Timers met and decided to place an advertisement in the local newspaper to announce that a meeting would be held for all Mounted Police Veterans.
The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the formation of a Royal Northwest Mounted Police Veterans’ Association. Meeting took place on May 19, 1913 in the halls of the Anglican All Saints Church in Vancouver, BC.
The meeting was hosted by the Church Minister, the Reverend Cannon Henry C. Lewis Hooper (ex-Sgt/Major – Reg. #878), who was most interested in the proposal of there being a Mounted Police Veterans’ Association.
This first meeting included 70 Mounted Police Veterans and retired Commissioner Laurence W. Herchmer. Herchmer chaired this first meeting with Percy Howard (Reg. #4101) being the Secretary and Charles Filtness (Reg. #3095) serving as Treasurer.
A motion was unanimously passed to create a Royal Northwest Mounted Police Veterans’ Association.
The following is a listing of all individuals who were/are President and Secretary for the Vancouver Division of the Veterans’ Association:
| President | Secretary | |
| 1913 | Major A.E. Snyder | C .A. Filtness |
| 1920 | Lt,. Col. I.W. Herchmer | |
| 1921 | J. Roberts | |
| 1923 | Rev. H.C. Lewis Hooper | |
| 1927 | Rev. H.C. Lewis Hooper | |
| 1928/31 | C.W. Whitehead | J.W. Weeks |
| 1932 | Sidney Marshall | J.W. Weeks |
| 1933/36 | S. Garnham | J.A.W. O’Neill |
| 1937 | R.F.B. Smyley | A.B. Christie |
| 1938/40 | T.C. Goldsmith | Frank Corby |
| 1941 | W.J,. Bowridge | Frank Corby |
| 1942/44 | C.R. Filtness | Frank Corby |
| 1945 | L.M. Lloyd-Walters | Frank Corby |
| 1946 | H.A. Stewart | Frank Corby |
| 1947 | Jim Fripps | Frank Corby |
| 1948 | H.A. Stewart | Frank Corby |
| 1949 | Jim Fripps | Eric Kusch |
| 1950 | Jim Fripps | Murdoch MacLean |
| 1951 | Jim Fripps | Murdoch MacLean |
| 1952/53 | T.B. Hutchings | Murdoch MacLean |
| 1954/55 | Jim Fripps | Murdoch MacLean |
| 1956/57 | Edward A. Simmons | Murdoch MacLean |
| 1958/59 | T.B. Hutchings | Murdoch MacLean |
| 1960/63 | E.A. Chamberlain | Murdoch MacLean |
| 1964/65 | J.T. Lines | Murdoch MacLean |
| 1966 | W.J. Durnin | Murdoch MacLean |
| 1967/68 | M.J. Olsen | Henry Kearny |
| 1969 | Johnny Doyle | John Piper |
| 1970/72 | R.K. Gervin | John Piper |
| 1973/74 | J.W. Duggan | John Piper |
| 1975/76 | H.F. MacNaughton | John Piper |
| 1977/78 | John Doyle | M.J. Olsen |
| 1979/82 | R.K. Gervin | M.J. Olsen |
| 1983 | J.W. Duggan | Jim Rutherford |
| 1984/87 | Frank Brien | Jim Rutherford |
| 1988 | J.W. Duggan | Art Levins |
| 1989 | Paul Starek | J.W. Duggan |
| 1990 | Jim Warren | J.W. Duggan |
| 1991/94 | Bill McCheyne | Bob McKee |
| 1995/96 | John Hooper | Bob McKee |
| 1997/98 | Dave Turnbull | Bob McKee |
| 1999/00 | Jim Druchet | Bob McKee |
| 2001/02 | Les Holmes | Mike Runte |
| 2003/04 | Bill Schindeler | Bob McKee |
| 2005/06 | Alf Erickson | Bob McKee |
| 2007 | Ed Wilson | Alf Erickson |
| 2008 | Ed Wilson | Meredith Rowden |
| 2009/10 | Bob McKee | Meredith Rowden |
| 2011 | Dick Hawshaw | Meredith Rowden |
| 2012 | Tom Quilley | Meredith Rowden |
| 2014 | Keith Leishman | Meredith Rowden |
| 2015/16 | Keith Leishman | Meredith Rowden |
| 2017/18 | Donna Morse | Meredith Rowden |
| 2019/20 | Robert Underhill | Ronald Morse |
| 2021/22 | Gordon Cave | Karen Frost |
| 2023/24 | Ronald Morse | Karen Frost |
| 2025/26 | John Sherstone | Karen Frost |
