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Constable Michael Bernard Potvin

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Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Service number: 57529
Age: 26
Rank: Constable
Force: RCMP
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Division: M Division, Mayo, Yukon
Enlistment: May 4, 2009
Death: July 13, 2010 Mayo
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Son of Mark and Patricia Potvin of Osgoode, Ontario. Cst. Mike Potvin was married to Allison who was eight months pregnant with their first child at the time of his death. He enjoyed traveling, hunting, fishing and working for the RCMP. In spite of being a very strong swimmer, he drowned when the RCMP boat he was in capsized on the Stewart River in Mayo, Yukon. He is buried in Beechwood Cemetery in Ottawa, Ontario.

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Page 228 of the RCMP Book of Remembrance.
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