Canada, Royal Canadian Mounted Police obituary card index and Notices - FamilySearch Historical Records

Collection Time Period
Most records are between 1876 and 2007.

Record Description
A collection of Royal Canadian Mounted Police death records found in Royal Canadian Mounted Police publications, including an index to some of the obituaries.

This record is a memorial to those Royal Canadian Mounted Police who died while in service. Secondly, it is a record of publications sent to living officers to inform them of the deaths of fellow officers.

The index was created by a retired officer, Norman G. Wilson, who wished to make the obituaries more accessible to family members and researchers.

Record Reliability
These publications and the accompanying index only include the records of those officers whose deaths were reported to the publications.

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Citation for This Collection
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Record Content



 * 1876–1971 Deaths of Royal Canadian Mounted Police killed while on duty, taken from S.W. Horrell's The Pictoral History of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (Toronto, Ontario: McGraw–Hill Ryerson, 1973).


 * 1919–1997 Scarlet and Gold (Royal Canadian Mounted Police Veterans' Association) publication including an historical honor roll of officers killed while on duty and more current obituaries. Honor roll contains deaths prior to 1919.


 * 1933–2007 Digital images of an obituary card index for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and digital images of the obituary sections of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police publications the index refers to.
 * 1976–1994 Pony Express: Staff Relations Branch Newsletter.

How to Use the Record
Scarlet and Gold and the Pictoral History of of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are lists of officers killed while in the line of duty. These lists are in chronological order. Some obituaries are included in these records.

The obituary card index is alphabetical by surname. This index covers the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Quarterly beginning with Volume 1, July 1933. Not all deaths are covered by this publication. If the Quarterly was not advised of a death, no obituary was printed.

Surnames in the index are followed by given name or initials and possibly nicknames. The second column holds the regimental number for the individual. Regimental numbers may be preceded by the following letters:


 * O=Officer Number
 * R=Reserve Constable
 * S=Special Constable
 * M=Marine Member
 * C=Civilian Member

The third column lists the rank of the officer when he or she took their discharge, or when then died in service.

The final two columns indicate the Volume and Issue number of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Quarterly where an obituary was printed. Use these numbers to access the digital images found within this collection.

The following abbreviations may be found on an index card:


 * CST = Constable
 * CPL = Corporal
 * SGT = Sergeant
 * S/SGT = Staff Sergeant
 * S/M = Sergeant Major
 * INSP = Inspector
 * C/S/M = Corps Sergeant Major
 * SPL = Special
 * S/S/M = Staff Sergeant Major
 * SUPT = Superintendent
 * VET = Veterinarian
 * ASST = Assistant
 * COMM'R = Commissioner
 * C/M = Civilian Member
 * R/ = Reserve
 * M/ = Marine
 * HON = Honorary

Related Websites

 * Saskatchewan Genealogical Society This society has a copy of the obituaries on file and an explanation about how the file index was created.
 * Library Canada Archives describes this collection and other places where more information about Royal Canadian Mounted Police may be found.
 * North West Mounted Police (NWMP) - Personnel Records, 1873-1904
 * RCMP Graves

Related Wiki Articles

 * Canada
 * Canada Military Records

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Citation Example for a Record Found in This Collection
"Canada, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Obituary Card Index and Notices, 1876-2007", digital images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org; accessed 9 May 2012),RCMP obituary card index,1876-2007, Abbott - Jacobs > Image 5 of 3235, Leonard Fredreck Abbott, 10 January 1980;citing Mounted Police Records, FHL microfilm 4,234,654; Royal Canadian Mounted Police, RCMP Heritage Collections Unit, Regina, Saskatchewan.