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Constable Albert Joseph Chartrand

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Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Service number: 10155
Age: 37
Rank: Constable
Force: RCMP
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Division: K Division, Edmonton to Aklavik,, Coppermine, and St. Roch
Birth: October 8, 1904 Ottawa, Ontario
Enlistment: January 22, 1926
Death: February 13, 1942 Pasley Bay
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Prior to joining the Force he worked at the grand old Russell Hotel and was a carrier boy for the “Le Devoir”. Cst. Chartrand loved the outdoors. He patrolled the settlements of the western Arctic: Aklavik, Herschel Island, Coppermine and Cambridge Bay. Cst. Chartrand spent a lot of his time breeding and training sled dogs and he set records as an expert dog driver. In 1940 Cst. Chartrand was chosen as a member of the eight man crew that would sail on the RCMP Schooner St. Roch when it attempted to traverse the Northwest Passage from west to east. He died of a heart attack on duty aboard the RCMP Schooner St. Roch, which was frozen in at Pasley Bay, Northwest Territories. Cst. Chartrand is buried in Pasley Bay.

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Page 104 of the RCMP Book of Remembrance.
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