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Tag Archives: Remembrance Day
Postcards offer Messages of Encouragement and Gratitude
In anticipation of another Remembrance Day, Helen Bajorek and Jean-Michel Komarnicki of Postcards to the Front Canada visited Ms Alksnis’ Grade 5 class at Millbrook South Cavan School on November 4th. The students engaged in a lively discussion about the war in Ukraine and wars in general, focusing on the… Continue reading
Remembrance Honours and Service Award Banquet
Dignitaries and Legion members enjoyed a meal and some socializing at the annual awards banquet. Pictured from left to right in the back row are: MP Jamie Schmale, Gord Orr, John Dike, Jim Cooper, Matthew Graham and Ryan Huntley, and in the front row are Michelle Fowler, Elaine Robb, Pat… Continue reading
Remembrance Day – November 2024
A Name Not on the Cenotaph
There is a plaque along the west wall of St Thomas Anglican church in Millbrook “In loving memory of William Henry Bateson…. killed at Passchendaele Nov 6th, 1917”. His name is not on our local cenotaph and I have wondered about this over the years. Sergeant Bateson was the son… Continue reading
Some Stories Behind the Names on Our Cenotaph
Have you ever taken the time to read the names on the local war memorial? There are forty-four names on the memorial, each with a story to tell. Here are three of those stories. Private Thomas Allen was the son of Rev. Canon W. C. Allen of Millbrook. He was… Continue reading
Why Participate in Remembrance Day?
Every year on November eleventh in Canada, we participate in rituals of Remembrance. Every day the viciousness, the cruelty, the destructiveness of war somewhere in the world, stride into our homes and minds on the wings of the news media and technology. We know war exists. We know its cost… Continue reading
Comment – October 2024
The downtown planters have been switched over for the season and the Legion banners are flying in town, so Remembrance day is on its way. For the first time, Millbrook’s Remembrance Day service will not feature any local WWII veterans with the passing this year of our last representative of… Continue reading
Millbrook Grade 6 Students ask: Who is Jason Salo?
On November 8 and 9th, 2023, a veteran named Jason Salo visited Millbrook South Cavan School. He met with each grade over two days, allowing him to speak with smaller groups of students. He explained that while in the war he was a Counterintelligence Investigator and a CF Air Marshall…. Continue reading