Showing posts with label Remembrance Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Remembrance Day. Show all posts
Thursday, October 25, 2018

Marking the end of World War I in 1918 with thoughts on war and peace over 100 years

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Me with my Dad 1942 As Remembrance Day approaches, and this year we mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I on November 11...
Thursday, November 9, 2017

Unveiling of Memorial Walls highlighted Chapleau Remembrance Day service in 1978

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The unveiling of Memorial Walls at the Remembrance Day service on November 11, 1978, completed the move of the cenotaph to its new locati...
Thursday, November 2, 2017

. 'Loss needs no learning and sorrow needs no schoolmaster' Rev. Murray McBride at Chapleau Remembrance Day 1961

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Impressive Remembrance Day services at the Town Hall and cenotaph following a parade of Branch Number 5 (Ontario) Royal Canadian Legion me...
Saturday, November 5, 2016

George Collinson of Chapleau honoured by Royal Canadian Legion in 1971 for his dedication 'beyond the call of duty'

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World War I veteran George Collinson, a charter member of  Branch Number 5 (Ontario) of the Royal Canadian Legion  received the Legion...
Saturday, November 14, 2015

Pat Purich Russell shares photos from Chapleau Remembrance Day service

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Pat Purich Russell kindly shared photos from the Remembrance Day Service conducted by Branch No 5 of the Royal Canadian Legion on Novemb...
Thursday, October 29, 2015

Remembrance Day in Chapleau 'fittingly and solemnly' observed in 1950 but sacrifices made for freedom remembered every day

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Remembrance Day was "fittingly and solemnly" observed by veterans of World War I and World War II, as well as citizens of Chapl...
Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Nicholson generosity left Chapleau with 'most elegant and distinctive of all Royal Canadian Legion properties in Canada'

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Royal Canadian Legion hall Chapleau Lt. Lorne Weller Nicholson was killed in action just one week before the armistice that ended World...
Friday, October 22, 2010

Chapleau World War I and II veterans urged to become involved in community life as Legion members elected to township council in 1947

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Two years after the end of World War II, as those who served in Canada's armed forces returned home to Chapleau, they were being urged...