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section, was created. It was equipped
with four de Havilland Dragonfly
twin-engine biplanes and a hanger was
built at "Oltawas Rockcliffe Airport.

Functions of Air Division

The division’s functions were then,
as now, to provide general transporta-
tion for all members of the force
where time, expense, secrecy or lack
of other transportation are deciding
factors; to transport prisoners, mental
patients, laboratory personnel and
exhibits, police dogs and their hand-

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lers; to conduct preventive, forest fire
and game patrols and mercy flights;
to obtain aerial photographs of dis-
aster centres; to freight supplies to
and from isolated detachments.

Within months of its incep-
tion, the Air Division had proved
its usefulness. Two fishermen had
been missing 48 hours in an open
motorbeat and were believed
heading i the face of a strong
wind towards the Gulf of St.
Lawrence. A Dragonfly located
them and directed an R.C.M.P.
cutter to the rescue.

With the outbreak of war, the
Division was disbanded, its men and
equipment transferred to the R.C.A.F.
But there remained a vital defense
assignment, one the government
would entrust only to the R.C.M.P.

That was the destruction of a string
of gasoline caches along the vulner-
able Arctic frontier.

The R.C.A.F. loaned one of its ex-
R.C.M.P. pilots and on July 22, 1940,
a Norseman aircraft took off for the
eastern Arctic. Six weeks later, after
venturing as far north as Repulse and
Wager Bays, it was back—mission
accomplished.

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After he had been
taught to read and
write while serv ing
a prison sentence in
Klamath Falls, Ore.,
a youth was arrested
for passing bad
checks.

Police in Mexico
City closed three
bakeries and jailed
the bakers for using
motor oil in baking
bread.

CASTLEGAR, B.C. oe

E. W. HICKS

SLOCAN CITY

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Re-Formed After the War

It was not until 1946 that the Air
Division was officially reconstituted.

Today it’s a thriving operation with
detachments coast to coast, 11 air-
craft and 32 personnel, including 14
pilots. It is commanded by Inspector
Douglas W. Dawson, 15-year veteran
of the force and a wartime R.C.A-F.
squadron leader.

A Hollywood studio wrote the
R.C.M.P. recently to enquire
about its “fighters” and the num-
ber and calibre of the machine

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