Rocky Mountain Rangers raise flag to commemorate 116 birthday

PRINCE GEORGE – The Rocky Mountain Rangers, alongside several City of Prince George Councillors, raised the Rocky Mountain Rangers flag at City Hall to commemorate 116 years of service. The city also declared this week “Ranger Week” and presented the Rocky Mountain Rangers with a ceremonial copy of the Prince George Veteran and Family Community Covenant.

“Anywhere in the world where the Rocky Mountain Rangers have gone over the last century plus, whether that was World War One, World War Two, Kiska, the Aleutian Islands, or more recently myself in Kuwait, others, Iraq, Afghanistan, wherever it might be, the Ranger camp flag has come with our deployed soldiers and been flown,” said Captain Eric Depenau, Officer in Command of Bravo Company.

While it’s the 116 birthday of the Rocky Mountain Rangers, 2024 also marks the 12 anniversary of the Ranger’s return of a rifle company (Bravo Company) to Prince George. Depenau says the Prince George Rocky Mountain Rangers plan on continuing the armory’s century plus of global peacekeeping.

“The world’s a complicated place and it seems to only be becoming more so, so members of the Rocky Mountain Rangers, Canadian Armed Forces, are ready to help carry out whatever it is that Canada needs them to do. Even reserve soldiers here in Prince George have the opportunity for deployment, so we have folks in the near future going to the Middle East or going to Europe on different operations and contributing,” Depenau said.