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Veteran's Stories
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Welcome to our Veteran's Stories page. This page acts as newsletter to share stories and articles we have collected though-out the years. If you are looking for a specific person or story, please use the search bar located at the top.
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Lawrence, Raymond
Raymond Lawrence- Chief Petty Officer Class 1 After the Second World War the Royal Canadian Navy began to accept increasing numbers of...
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Feb 15, 20222 min read
Downes, Marguerite “Peggy”
Marguerite A.“ Peggy” Brown was born in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia on March 4, 1939, to James and Rita Brown. Her father, a Guyanese...
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Feb 15, 20223 min read
Burden, Alvie
Alvie Burden celebrated his 100th birthday on January 30th, 2022 and is one of the last remaining Black Canadians who served in the...
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Feb 4, 20223 min read
Turner, Lloyd
Sgt. Lloyd Turner of The Queens Own Rifles of Canada spent almost 5 years in Europe fighting through France, Belgium and into Germany....
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Feb 4, 20222 min read
Ware, William
Ware, William Henry FWW Regimental Number 931656 William Henry Ware and his twin sister Mildred were Sheep Creek Alberta in 1898....
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Feb 3, 20221 min read
Ware, Arthur
Arthur Nelson Ware was born on 4 July 1897, in Millarville, Foothills No. 31, Alberta, Canada to parents John Ware and Mildred Jane...
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Feb 3, 20221 min read
Johnson, Oliver “Ollie”
Athletics has often been a way for young men and women to rise above their economic status. It has also been a means to Ollie Johnson...
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Feb 3, 20223 min read
Gale, Thamis
Educator, Historian Second World War Veteran. Thamis Ebert William Gale was born on February 28th, 1921. Thamis was born in Montreal and...
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Feb 3, 20224 min read
Alexander, Lincoln
Lincoln Alexander – Humanitarian Lincoln McCauley Alexander was the son of immigrants from the Caribbean. He would become the first Black...
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Jan 20, 20224 min read
Rooks, Alfred
Born in November 1888 on the island of Trinidad, Alfred Louis Rooks grew up on the island. After he finished his schooling he worked as a...
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Jan 15, 20223 min read
Maxwell, Robert
Lieutenant-Colonel (Ret’d) Robert “Bob” Maxwell - RCAF I was born on December 15,1937 in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. For the first twelve...
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Jan 15, 20223 min read
Jacobs, Kenneth
I am the descendant of escaped slaves who arrived in this country in the mid nineteenth century via the Underground Railroad. I had the...
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Jan 15, 20223 min read
Hodges, Frederick
Frederick Douglas Hodges – Order of Canada Fred Hodges was born on 19 April 1918 in Saint John, the oldest of three boys and one girl....
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Jan 15, 20223 min read
Parris, Gerry
Gerry Parris was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia to parents Gerald Parris (Second World War D-Day veteran) and Yvonne Talbot. He has eleven...
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Jan 14, 20224 min read
Parris, Seldon
Seldon Thomas Parris was born October 9th, 1892 to parents Alexander Parris and Margaret Prevost. His father died when Seldon was a...
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Jan 14, 20222 min read
Hall, William
The Victoria Cross was and remains the highest award for valour in the face of the enemy that can be awarded in the Commonwealth. William...
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Dec 23, 20214 min read
Parris, June
June Madonna Paris was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia and was the daughter of D-Day veteran Gerald Parris and Yvonne Talbot. She has eleven...
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Dec 23, 20211 min read
Parris, Gerald
Gerald Gladstone Parris, was one of the last surviving African-Canadians of the June 6 , 1944, Allied invasion on the beaches of...
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Dec 23, 20212 min read
Dymond, Miles
Miles Smith Dymond was born in Fredericton, NB, on 25 March 1882. He was working as a stone cutter in Woodstock, NB, when he enlisted in...
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Dec 13, 20213 min read
Reddick, Sandra
Sandra Eileen Reddick born in Halifax Dec. 7, 1938 to Ernest and Doris Reddick. “In 1950 my parents built a new home for us on the...
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Dec 13, 20213 min read
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