![]() Harold was posted to Halifax, NS upon graduation and arrived in Dec 1941. ![]() He started just after the RCMP fully transitioned from horses to automobiles and for several years prior to the musical ride start-up, he and other recruits avoided mucking out the stables, a chore of which he already had his fill. Losing patience and at the urging of Uncle Joseph Healy, a Mountie in Moose Jaw, he joined the RCMP in Regina in on Feb 2nd, 1941 at the age of 22. RCMP Harold thought his father should have progressed faster in the transition from horses to tractors. Harold was driving the family Model A at the age of 11 or 12. Luckily, he was able to back them out to un-tangle them. This left him a memory of why would anyone do that, and a terrible tangle of harnessed horses to sort out. Once a car honked just as he was entering the team into the elevator and a horse jumped harness part way in. In later years during harvest season Harold drove grain wagons with teams of up to six horses, but usually four to the Mortlack Grain elevators. Mark would wait patiently hitched to a rail for Harold to get out of School. He attended school riding his pony Mark at a young age. Harold spent his childhood and young adult life on a working farm attending to horses, playing hockey on the ponds, hunting ducks, searching for native artifacts exposed by the 1930’s dust bowl winds, and generating electricity from his hand carved propeller and a car generator attached to the house roof. & 10 months) Regimental # 14011, Oldest RCMP member in Atlantic Canada and believed second oldest in Canadaīorn in a farmhouse on the outskirts of the Town of Mortlack, Saskatchewan (35 miles west of Moose Jaw) a few months before the end of World War I. Certificate and Articles of Continuance.RCMP Veterans’ Association Governance Manual.Supplementary Health and Benefits Information. ![]()
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