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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. 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
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Incident Details
Constable Albert Joseph Chartrand is one of 1 officers lost under undetermined circumstances across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,772 officers honored here.
In ON, 266 of 364 officers were lost under undetermined circumstances — 73.1% of this state's fallen. That is 73.1 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.
At Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 236 of 333 officers on record were lost under undetermined circumstances — 70.9% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
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When Undetermined Deaths Occur
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Incident Location
Aklavik, NT.
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