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Pedal planes will occupy the youngest visitors to the museum.
Farmit Manitoba, Other

PHOTOS: Remember veterans with a visit to the Commonwealth Air Museum

Winston Churchill called the pilot training program Canada’s greatest contribution to the war effort

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If you’re looking for an activity to help recognize Remembrance Day, consider a visit to the Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum and RCAF WWII Memorial at McGill Field (Brandon Municipal Airport). This was the site of a training school for pilots and other aircraft crews of the British Commonwealth during the Second World War. It
During the First World War Camp Hughes became a bustling mini community.
Farmit Manitoba, Other

Mark November 11 with a visit to Camp Hughes

This site near Carberry is Manitoba’s lone National Historic Site dedicated to the Great War

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November 11 is fast approaching, but this year’s events may need to be somewhat different. If Remembrance Day programs are cancelled in your area, or if you’re unsure about attending a socially distanced service, consider an outdoors way of remembering and honouring our fallen soldiers. If the weather and roads remain good, one good way
The poppy: a meaningful symbol of remembrance
Country Crossroads, Other

The poppy: a meaningful symbol of remembrance

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This year, when you pin on a poppy for Remembrance Day, take a few minutes to consider what the poppy means to you and to many Canadians. Over the years it has become a meaningful symbol of remembrance of those who served our country, and especially of those who died in conflict. Other Commonwealth countries
Editorial, Opinion, Other

Editorial: On remembering

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Canada has a long history of respect and remembrance for citizens who served and fell in war. In fact it was a poem by Canadian physician John McCrae that first made the poppy an enduring symbol of remembrance, with the moving opening line: “In Flanders Fields the poppies grow, between the crosses row on row.”
Local residents (l to r) Ross McMillan, Bill Morrow, Chris Monk and Derek Jackson — who also serve on the local cemetery board — are committed to maintaining the community’s war memorial.
Local news, Other

Remembering the men of Margaret

Residents of this small southwestern Manitoba village 
continue to attend to the care of their war memorial

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Pale November sunlight glints off the cold red granite where their names are inscribed. They were farm boys, seven sons of Margaret families, who never returned home to their small southwestern Manitoba village a century ago. Sgt. William David McKellar’s name is on this monument. He died in a sea of blood-soaked mud October 26,
Poppy seed heads can be left natural (r) or colour added such as these burgundy painted ones (l). Black poppy seeds are seen spilling from a container.
Country Crossroads

Poppies — a symbol of Remembrance Day

These beautiful flowers also produce seed heads and seeds for a variety of uses

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November 11 brings back memories for many people and the poppy is one of the established symbols of Remembrance Day. However, they are useful for more than the beauty of their flowers and to remind us of the fields of poppies near European war memorials. Poppies produce beautiful seed heads and abundant seeds, both of
Members of the Holland, Man. Royal Canadian Legion Carol Kilfoyle (l) and Tamara Greenlay were part of an effort to name local waterways after fallen First W
orld War soldiers.
Local news

Remembering fallen soldiers closer to home

Legion members in Holland, Man. want geographical landmarks named after lost soldiers to be accessible

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Members of the Royal Canadian Legion in Holland, Man. are asking why a provincial program that honours fallen soldiers by naming a geographical landmark after them can’t remember them closer to home. Les Ferris, who heads up the local branch, said they have been working with the local municipality and the provincial government in recent
Beverley Anderson sitting at her computer
Country Crossroads

Remembering Canada’s veterans

MacGregor woman creates book to honour those who served


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The RM of North Norfolk (the MacGregor and Austin area) will soon have a new resource for history buffs, or for those interested in details of the various wars in which our citizens have fought. Remembering Our Veterans is a limited edition book to be published this fall. The brainchild of Beverley Anderson of MacGregor,
Opinion

Editorial: Remembering the fallen

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Remembrance Day came early for Canadians this year. A full century since the start of the First World War, the events of Oct. 20 and 22 which claimed the lives of Canadian servicemen Patrice Vincent and Nathan Cirillo became painful reminders that war is not something we can relegate to our society’s fading collective memory.

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