Donna Morse joined the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1974, becoming a member of Troop 17 1974/75, the first troop of women accepted into the Force as regular members. Now actively involved with the RCMP Veterans’ Association, Vancouver Division, Donna was acknowledged as a Life Member of the RCMP Heritage Centre in 2020, having become involved in supporting the Historical Collections Unit and the Pillars of the Force. Donna has authored three stories about her policing career, published in Red Coat Diaries: True Stories from the Women of the RCMP.

Ric Hall joined the Force in 1965, and became a member of the Emergency Response Teams, trained in counter-terrorist tactics by the British SAS, after which he served as Team Commander of the Special Emergency Response Team, Canada’s first full-time counter-terrorist unit. Having retired with the rank of Superintendent, he is now on the executive of the Vancouver Division of the RCMP Veterans’ Association and serves as their historian.