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Constable

Albert Joseph Chartrand

Royal Canadian Mounted Police — ON

Undetermined

End of Watch February 13, 1942

Age 37

The Vigil Panel 216 ›

Gender Male

Division K Division, Edmonton to Aklavik,, Coppermine, and St. Roch

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 332

Incident

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. Constable Albert Joseph Chartrand Inscription on grave marker Constable Albert Joseph Chartrand Constable Albert Joseph Chartrand

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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Constable Joseph Chartrand served with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Constable Joseph Chartrand.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Location ON

Platform Identity rcmp.fed.ca.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch February 13, 1942

Age 37

Gender Male

Division K Division, Edmonton to Aklavik,, Coppermine, and St. Roch

Born October 8, 1904

Incident Details

Cause Undetermined

Incident Location Aklavik, NT

Constable Albert Joseph Chartrand is one of 260 officers lost under undetermined circumstances across the full record of this memorial — 0.8% of all 32,508 officers honored here.

In ON, 236 of 334 officers were lost under undetermined circumstances — 70.7% of this state's fallen. That is 69.9 percentage points above the national rate of 0.8%.

At Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 236 of 333 officers on record were lost under undetermined circumstances — 70.9% of this agency's fallen.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police

236

of 333 officers

70.9% Undetermined

ON — Statewide

236

of 334 officers

70.7% Undetermined

Nationwide

260

of 32,508 officers

0.8% Undetermined

National Cause Distribution

How Undetermined compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Albert Joseph Chartrand's cause is highlighted.

Felonious

17,623 (54.2%)

Accident

10,088 (31%)

Illness

2,974 (9.1%)

Cardiac

1,306 (4%)

Undetermined

260 (0.8%)

Suicide

256 (0.8%)

vehicular

1 (0%)

How Albert Joseph Chartrand Compares

Age at End of Watch

This officer

Avg for Undetermined: 31.7 years

When Undetermined Deaths Occur

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Incident Location

Aklavik, NT.

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