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Remembrance

Remembrance in Regina

“There are veterans who like to talk and there are veterans who don’t like to talk. My father was one of the ones that didn’t like to talk,” said Regina Branch President Terry Duncan as veterans gathered in the nearby Shiners’ Club after the 2013 Remembrance Day service.

Instead of being able to talk with his father about the Second World War, Duncan learned of his father’s experience with the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals through a diary he kept. “I only found it after he passed away,” said Duncan, who spent 13 years in police services.

Tom MacGregor January 1, 2014

On My Honour

In tribute to the lost, the wounded and their families on Remembrance Day in Ottawa

At just past 11 a.m. on November 11th, four jets thundered over the National War Memorial in downtown Ottawa, an unmistakable signal that the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month had arrived.

Adam Day January 1, 2014

The Korean Miracle: Marking 60 Years of Peace in a Place of Enduring Conflict

Travelling through the interior of South Korea on the KTX high-speed train between Seoul and Busan, one cannot escape the hypnotic rhythm of the rising hills and valleys filled with rice paddies.

“The hills—you never forget the hills,” I heard more than one Canadian veteran of the Korean War tell me.

Tom MacGregor November 10, 2013

The Royal Canadian Legion 2013 Pilgrimage of Remembrance: The Pilgrims’ Watch

A century ago, Alex Wilson of Killam, Alta., won a watch at a carnival. It was in his pocket when he enlisted and during the Battle of Passchendaele when he was wounded.

The young stretcher-bearer returned to Canada with two things he loved—his bride, Leah Beatrice Jones who had nursed him, and the prized Elgin watch.

Sharon Adams November 7, 2013

The National Ceremony

The stories are written on the faces, but mostly in the knowing expressions of those who “were there.” They are found in the eyes of

Dan Black January 11, 2013

Remembrance In Thunder Bay

North side, south side, Port Arthur, Fort William; for close on two centuries a spirited rivalry has existed between the citizens of the area that is now the city of Thunder Bay, Ont., snuggled on the northwest shore of Lake Superior. Depending on your perspective, the city is the western end of the Great Lakes in Canada or the gateway to the St. Lawrence Seaway in the east.

But if there is one thing upon which residents agree—regardless of which part of the city they live in, their race or ethnic background, age or generation—it is the importance of remembrance, witnessed in small acts and grand gestures during the Remembrance Day period.

Sharon Adams January 11, 2013
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