RCMPV St. Roch is a Royal Canadian Mounted Police schooner, the first ship to completely circumnavigate North America, and the second vessel to transit the Northwest Passage. She was the first ship to complete the Northwest Passage in the west to east direction, using the same route that Amundsen on the sailing vessel Gjøa had traversed east to west, 38 years earlier.
St. Roch wintering in the Beaufort Sea, 1948.
St. Roch at Vancouver Maritime Museum
St. Roch at Vancouver Maritime Museum
St. Roch at Vancouver Maritime Museum
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is the national police service of Canada. The RCMP is an agency of the Government of Canada; it also delivers police services under contract to 11 provinces and territories, over 150 municipalities, and 600 Indigenous communities. The RCMP is commonly known as the Mounties in English.
1973–2023 guidon of the RCMP
Several RCMP members involved in the hunt for Albert Johnson, 1931.
A member of the emergency response team in training in 2010. The tactical unit was formed in 1977.
RCMP security detail at the gates of 24 Sussex Drive, 2008. The Personal Protection Group was created in 1995.
