RCMP Veterans’ Association – Vancouver Division

      For this week’s Ric Hall’s Photo Corner, Ric has selected the photo theme of “Isolated Member’s Best Friend – the police dog.”         With the Force, expanding their duties and responsibilities into northern Canada, the horse was replaced with the dogsled as the primary model of transportation. According to […]

      For this week’s Photo Corner, Ric has selected the theme of “firearms training and Force Shooting Teams.”           Firearms training and annual qualifications has been the cornerstone of the Force since its creation in 1873.  This tradition continues today. Ric has included the photographs below of firearms training […]

        Commissioner A. B. Perry had created a small manual so that “each member will make himself fully conversant with the details of the manual in conjunction with the Criminal Code and other Statutes of Canada.”       Some excerpts from the Royal North West Mounted Police Constables’ Manual – 1907: […]

        For this week, Ric Hall has selected the photograph theme of “Reg. #6298 – Sergeant Frank Pearson.”         Frank joined the Force on September 4, 1914 and volunteered for the Cavalry Draft RNWMP in May 1918 and was later deployed to “A” Squadron RNWMP which saw service in […]

    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 […]

        For this week, Ric Hall has selected the photograph theme of “Royal North West Mounted Police postcards at Depot.”         Early commercial photographs were taken and sold as postcards.  The Force was a popular topic for being photographed.  These photographs provide a valuable insight to the early times […]

        For this week, Ric’s photography theme is “cameras captured images of members at their outpost or on detachment.”       Since the creation of the Force in 1873, cameras have been able to capture the images of members stationed at various locations in Canada.  The following images are provided for your […]

      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 […]

      Since 1917,  had continued to promote the suggestion that the members of the Force should be permitted to form and send a cavalry regiment to the Canadian Expeditionary Force. For many months, Commissioner Perry had “been agitating for an opportunity to show their mettle in actual warfare” and “made all sorts of […]

At 8:30 pm on May 30, 1918, the entire Cavalry Draft formed up in front of “A” Block at “Depot” barracks in “squadron column.”  Members were in full marching order. At 9:00 pm, the Draft marched from “Depot” to the C.P.R. railway station in Regina and were lead by the Regina Salvation Army Band.  As […]