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About Us
SARVAC History
A meeting was held in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, in October 1996 that brought together police, emergency measures officials, and volunteer search and rescue representatives from each province and territory in Canada to discuss the creation of a national ground search and rescue volunteer association.
Out of this meeting, the Search and Rescue Volunteer Association of Canada (SARVAC) was formed to provide a national voice for ground search and rescue volunteers to address issues of common concern, and to develop programs and deliver initiatives that benefit and support all ground search and rescue volunteers in Canada.
In the two years following the 1996 meeting, with funding from the New Initiatives Fund (administered by the National Search and Rescue Secretariat), SARVAC brought together policing agencies, emergency measures officials, and its newly formed Board of Directors to continue discussions about ground search and rescue in Canada and, in particular, the role and needs of search and rescue volunteers.
These meetings offered an opportunity for search and rescue stakeholders from across Canada to exchange ideas and discuss matters of common interest. These meetings ultimately resulted in a positive step forward for ground search and rescue in Canada, which has seen the formation of numerous volunteer search and rescue teams, as well as provincial/territorial volunteer associations, in the years following.
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