Library of the Association

This section brings together pages of our website likely to be of interest to searchers who are part of the Association's member groups.

Training manual

La version 1.4  of the AQBRS training manual is available to order.

You can order it by filling out the order form that you will find below and returning it to the following address: aqbrsadm@gmail.com

Purchase Order - Training Manuals

The search and rescue dog

The canine expertise is now on paper.

The new search and rescue canine team training manual is available to order. In this 300-page book, we cover all aspects of training a search and rescue canine team.

There you will find information on forest search techniques, searching for drowning victims, avalanche searching, rubble searching and searching for human remains.

You can order it by filling out the order form that you will find below and returning it to the following address: aqbrsadm@gmail.com

Purchase Order - Training Manuals

Canadian Search and Rescue Standards (CSA)

Canadian search and rescue standards
In 2015, in collaboration with the CSA group, the Search and Rescue Volunteer Association of Canada published a national standard to guide the requirements of ground searchers, team leaders and search managers.

CSA standards relating to the use of drones

In conjunction with the CSA Group, SARVAC has developed a national standard for the use of drones during search and rescue operations. (English only) 

Borrowing tags 

The Association has around twenty orientation beacons (or “orienteering flags”) used to create training courses for compass and/or GPS navigation. These tags can be hung from a tree and have interchangeable punches that participants use to prove they have found the tags.

Contact us to borrow these tags from aqbrsadm@gmail.com