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Surgeon Powers was an avid athlete in University who starred on the hockey team and was a goalie and captain of the McGill intercollegiate hockey team. He was Canada’s leading medico-legal expert and the person responsible for planning and organizing Canada’s first crime laboratories in Regina and Ottawa. Surgeon Powers was the first person to receive the new degree of Doctor of Medical Science in Forensic Medicine from New York University. The plane that Surgeon Powers was in appeared to be having problems and had to turn around. On its return the plane had sheared through telephone wires only 20 feet above the ground causing it to crash into the trees. Poor visibility was the main contributing factor to the accident. Surgeon Powers had a wife Marguerite and two children. Surgeon Maurice Powers Surgeon Maurice Powers Inscription on grave marker
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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Constable Maurice Powers served with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Constable Maurice Powers.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Incident Details
Constable Surgeon Maurice Powers 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.
National Cause Distribution
How Undetermined compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Surgeon Maurice Powers's cause is highlighted.
How Surgeon Maurice Powers Compares
When Undetermined Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Undetermined deaths across the full memorial record. Surgeon Maurice Powers is highlighted in Oct.
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