Victoria Lacrosse Donation to Honour Fallen RCMP Officer

Kelsey Foote was just expecting to receive a lacrosse stick or two when she approached the Victoria Shamrocks association looking for help.

But Foote, the fiancée of RCMP Const. Graham Holmes who died in a snowmobiling accident in Nunavut in April, said she was overwhelmed when the Victoria Shamrocks donated more than 200 pounds of lacrosse equipment and jerseys for her to bring back to the children and youth in Kugluktuk, where Holmes last served. 

Rod Wood, vice president of the Victoria Shamrocks Junior As, presented Foote with the equipment at the Shawnigan Lake RCMP detachment on Aug. 1

“This is very heartwarming and it means the world to me,” Foote said at the detachment.

“I’m good friends with Rod Wood and I asked if he had a few sticks laying around that I could take back up to Kugluktuk when I return to collect the rest of our things. They are very short on lacrosse gear in that fly-in only community.”

Holmes, 30, died on April 6 when his snowmobile went off a 30-metre cliff near Bloody Falls in Kugluk Territorial Park while he was off duty.

Read the rest of the article in the Goldstream News Gazette: https://www.goldstreamgazette.com/news/lacrosse-donation-honours-former-shawnigan-rcmp-constables-memory/