CHAPPUIS, M. (Marcel / ‘Chappy’)

Regimental Number: #10418

Ron Russell (RCMP - Insp. retired); Les Oystyk  (Sask. Conservation Officer Service - retired); Rick Betker (RCMP - C/Supt. retired) 

Photo of dog team:  Dog team at rest, taken by Const. Marcel Chappuis between 1910 and 1920. He reportedly travelled up to three thousand miles by dogsled on his winter patrols in the far north. Photo LH 6389-31, from Local History Room, Saskatoon Public Library

Sources   

1) Betker, Rick. Retired RCMP C/Supt. Personal communications. 2024. 

2) Hulgaard, W.J. and J.W. White. Honoured In Places. Surrey BC, 

    Heritage House Publishing Company Ltd. 2002.

3) Local History Room. Dog sled photo LK6389-31. Saskatoon Public Library.

4) Nemeth, Rosemary.  “Chappy” A Legend of Northern Saskatchewan.

     Published in the Quarterly. Volume 50. No. 1. Winter edition. 1985.

5) Oswald, Kelly. Article in the Flin Flon Reminder newspaper. July 16, 2014.

6) Oystyk, Les. Sask Conservation Officer Service (rtd) - Chappy historian. 2024.  

7)  Saskapedia.  Dogsled photo credit. August 13, 2019.

 

 

Divisions Served: F

Regimental Number: #10418

Home Town: Puidoux, Switzerland

Engagement Date: May 25, 1928