RCMP Veterans’ Association – Vancouver Division

      Over the past few days, several RCMP Veterans have been in the news. Their stories are include below for your information.         Legendary Mountie MacRae Overhauled Training At ‘Depot’ – REGINA — When Bill MacRae joined the RCMP, recruits — all of them male — got training heavy on […]

    This tribute is for Gordon Ellwyn’s outlines a young Alberta man who sought adventure by volunteering for the Cavalry Draft RNWMP and after the war went on to become a member in several policing organizations:  Saskatchewan Provincial Police, Manitoba Provincial Police and the RCMP.     As a volunteer member of the Cavalry […]

      Veteran Phil Juby submitted the following story to us and it is appropriate to post on our website for other to read and pass on.         Although this is an American true story, it is relevant to Canada as well. In September  of 2005, on the first day of […]

    With the recent redesign of our Canadian currency bills, few citizens are aware of the significance of individual included on these new bills.           Veteran Shirley Hall submitted to us a copy of a narrative entitled “The  Veteran On Our Ten Dollar Bill” (S.R.M. Fenton) which appeared in the […]

      This tribute is to a fallen Vancouver Police Department member who was killed on duty.  He had also served two years in the Royal North West Mounted Police prior to joining the Vancouver Police Department.         In October of 1911 twenty-year-old Lewis James Byers and his new wife Annie […]

    Veteran Wayne Ryan dedicated his new book, entitled “Souls Behind The Badge: The Real World Of Policing – An Insider’s View,” to the late Constable Adrian Oliver. On November 13, 2012, Constable Oliver (Reg. #57673) was killed in a motor vehicle accident while on duty at Surrey Detachment.     Being an ex-Surrey Detachment […]

      On November 26, 2013 at Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, it was a proud day for the members of the Edmonton Division of the RCMP Veterans’ Association.         It was on this day that Mayor Gale Katchur unveiled and dedicated the life sized bronze statue of  Inspector William D. Jarvis seated on a […]

      Major-General Victor Arthur Seymour Williams CMG (NWMP – O.82) was a Canadian General Officer in WWI and later became the Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police.         Victor Williams was born at Port Hope on June 2, 1867 and was the son of Lieut. Colonel Arthur Trefusis Heneag Williams (previous Canadian […]

          George Jennings made significant contributions to the Force and was in key positions to assist with the development of the Force and its contributions to Canada.     He was born at Toronto Ontario on May 3rd 1875 to the son of Robert Cummings Jennings.  George graduated from Woodstock College […]

      The following details were forwarded to us by Veteran Joe Collinson.           George Arundel CUTTING was born to Percy and Ruby CUTTING in the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Detachment at Gull Lake, Sask. on the 12 of August 1914.  His father’s regimental number was #3149 and was a […]