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When my grandsons start running amok, my exasperated daughter is known to say, “Those boys are definitely Scharfs!”
I take some twisted pride in their rowdiness, yet it’s not entirely accurate, as my cousins in the Maritimes balanced the family scales by becoming Mounties, much to the chagrin of great-great uncle George McKenna.
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Both Phil and Dave put in 35 years with the Mounties, and while Phil became an investigator for cases like the Cape Breton murders, Dave liked to stay under the wire. Dave had a gift – what cops in Southern California call a command presence. Dave had that in spades. He had no overtone of aggression. It was just very evident that it would be a bad idea to give him any problems. He served in Bridgeton, Regina, Sydney, and Tatamagouche.