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Digital democracy in action

Eric Harris — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 19:20:38 +0000

Delayed by a year, Legion delegates finally met in a virtual convention hall and found strength in unity August 13-15, 883 accredited delegates assembled online for The Royal Canadian Legion’s 48th Dominion Convention and focused on membership, public awareness and efforts to support Canada’s veterans. Delegates entered via a password-protected portal. Due to the pandemic, the …

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Offering support in cottage country

Tom MacGregor — Thu, 06 May 2021 12:31:24 +0000

Bala Branch, a small Legion branch in the heart of the Muskoka district, has been reinventing itself for the new realities of COVID-19. The branch is housed in a former public school in the village of Bala, Ont., in cottage country about 200 kilometres north of Toronto. It has some 170 members, most of whom …

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Find-Share-Discuss: November/December 2015

Legion Magazine — Sun, 01 Nov 2015 04:01:32 +0000

James H. Robertson of Victoria sent us photos of his grandfather, George Henry Cecil Robertson, who served in France with the 6th Field Company, 2nd Divisional Engineers, Canadian Expeditionary Force, from 1915 to 1918. This photo was made at Salisbury Plain in central southern England in 1915. This portrait of George Robertson was taken in …

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Find-Share-Discuss: September/October 2015

Legion Magazine — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 04:01:36 +0000

James E. Russell of Scarborough, Ont., sent us this photo of his maternal grandfather, Clifford Kemsley, on his return from the First World War to his family home in Toronto’s west end, possibly in 1917.

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Find-Share-Discuss: July/August 2015

Legion Magazine — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 04:01:15 +0000

John (Jack) Weakford Smith was killed in action in the Battle of Normandy We thank Laraine Maltby Smith for sharing these photos and encourage others to share their photos of wartime or peacetime service. To submit a photograph (no photocopies), please mail to Find-Share-Discuss, c/o Legion Magazine, 86 Aird Place, Kanata ON K2L 0A1 …

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Find-Share-Discuss: May/June 2015

Legion Magazine — Fri, 01 May 2015 04:01:34 +0000

A personal look at the Liberation of the Netherlands
Ann Meunier of St. Albert, Alta., sends a number of photos that her late father Albert Thomas Collins kept in a small box following his return from the Second World War. Collins was in the 3rd Canadian Army Infantry and participated in the liberation of the Netherlands in 1945.

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Find-Share-Discuss: March/April 2015

Legion Magazine — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 08:00:31 +0000

Mark Wilson of Ottawa sends us a photo of his father, Stanley Wilson (second, from left), as a member of the air crew that flew the Halifax bomber Torchy Tess. The crew flew 28 missions starting in January 1945 as part of 415 (Swordfish) Squadron, stationed in East Moor, England.

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Find-Share-Discuss: January/February 2015

Legion Magazine — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 05:01:45 +0000

100-Year-Old Uniform Fernand Levesque and his daughter, Lise, share photos of Fernand’s father, Edward, and mother, Hermosa, and the uniform Edward wore in the First World War. Edward served in the 42nd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force. “The photo of my grandparents,” explains Lise, “was taken in April 1919 after my grandfather came back from the …

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Find-Share-Discuss: November/December 2014

Legion Magazine — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 04:01:53 +0000

Wounded In Battle Nora Groenendyk shares a couple of First World War photos of her father, Daniel Joseph Doyle, who was seriously wounded by shrapnel while serving with the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery. The first photo shows the young soldier (front row, second from left) posing with other men—many of them recovering from wounds—in front …

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Find-Share-Discuss: September/October 2014

Legion Magazine — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 04:01:50 +0000

Life After Dieppe Don Honeychurch of Calgary shares a photo that appears on his father’s wartime photo album. Don suspects the photo was taken in Holland. Wilfred Honeychurch (second row, 5th from left) started out as a bandsman with the South Saskatchewan Regiment. “He ended up going to Dieppe in August 1942 as a …

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