RCMP Veterans’ Association – Vancouver Division

    For this week, Ric Hall has selected the photo theme of “member’s children growing up surrounded by all the RCMP stuff.”            The children of a mountie growing up had its challenges with the constant transfers and the family trying to fit in with each new community.  However for […]

      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 and […]

        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 and […]

        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 […]

        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 […]

        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 of these old newspaper clippings for the interest of Veterans and their […]

        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 […]

        For this week’s Photo Corner webpage, Ric Hall has selected the photo theme of “Force Equitation.”         Since the creation of the Force in 1873 and up to 1966, the Force equitation has been a key component of the basic training for new Force members. According to Ric, […]

        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 […]