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Constable Gagné was posted to Digby Detachment, Nova Scotia. He was a good athlete who liked to play hockey, baseball and golf. He played hockey for the city of Vanier in the Québec Intercity League, where he competed against Patrick Roy of the Montréal Canadiens. Constable Gagné was proud of the fact that, during his career, he scored three goals on Patrick Roy. After being hired by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1992, he was sent to Montreal for a year to learn English before going to Depot. Constable Gagné had a fiancée named Nathalie. He was known as an attentive and generous person. He is buried in Sainte-Odile, Québec. Constable Joseph Ernest André Claude Gagné Constable Joseph Ernest André Claude Gagné Constable Joseph Ernest André Claude Gagné Click here to view in full screen In the Books of Remembrance
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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Constable Ernest André Claude Gagné served with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Constable Ernest André Claude Gagné.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Constable Joseph Ernest André Claude Gagné 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.
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