User talk:Cognoscento

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Colonel Foster
Thanks. He's an interesting guy in local history and it's surprising that there's so little published material on him. He would make a good subject for a biography, but thus far remains fairly obscure, so I didn't think anyone else would actually read that article. I've been doing research on the VPD and have been through much of the museum's material, though not for a while and not since Foster's stuff was donated. I'll come by again soon to check it out.

I phoned his granddaughter's husband (she had recently passed away, this was about a year ago) and he said that some other researcher had borrowed a bunch of Foster's stuff, war diaries and I believe some other written material, but the project wasn't completed and those items were not returned and the researcher had since died. He didn't remember the researcher's name, but he did give me another granddaughter's number who might have more information. I didn't follow it up because as far as he knew, it was mostly war-related and not to do with the police. Hopefully that stuff has, or will, turn up at the police museum as well. I also tried to convince the police union to donate their minute books, which go back to 1918 and are apparently deteriorating, but they were adamantly opposed, saying that descendents of those guys are on the force and there were privacy issues.

As for contributing to police articles, there's a little bit of history in the Vancouver Police Department article, but if you compare it to the Toronto Police article, a whole lot more could be added. Feel free to dig in. I have a hard time refraining from "original research" and I've been putting off adding more stuff. Bobanny 23:08, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

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