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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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Harper, Burton
Burton Harper of Shelburne Nova Scotia was born on May 23rd, 1896 to parents Henry and Emma Harper. His dad was born in 1865 in Queen's...
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Feb 12 min read
Flood Sidney
Flood, Sidney regimental # 931066 November 7 th, 2024, in a moving ceremony held in Toronto and later at Ottawa’s Canadian War Museum,...
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Feb 13 min read
First World War: No. 2 Construction Battalion
No. 2 Construction Battalion was authorized on 5 July 1916, the largest Black unit in Canadian military history.
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Sep 6, 20233 min read
Modesty, Walter Haley
Walter Haley Modesty was born in Platt City, Missouri, USA in the 1870s. He arrived in Canada in the early 1900s and settled in Junkins...
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Aug 30, 20233 min read
Carty, Albert
He was a member of No 2 Construction Battalion Band and played the tuba. His wife’s brothers also enlisted in the Battalion.
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Aug 29, 20233 min read
Watts, Samuel
Samuel Daniel Watts was born in Texas on May 25th, 1882 and immigrated to Canada in 1904. In 1907 he married his wife Margaret in...
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Jun 22, 20232 min read
Jones, Jeremiah “Jerry”
Born at East Mountain, Nova Scotia, on March 30, 1858, Jeremiah “Jerry” Jones was a farmer and teamster living with his wife Ethel (Cook)...
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May 22, 20232 min read
Bright, John
Of over 1,400 Black soldiers who served in the First World War, approximately 100 Black soldiers served in the trenches. Ten of them went...
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May 22, 20232 min read
Butler, Joseph Roger
Sergeant Joseph Roger Butler was born in Richmond, Virginia, USA on November 22, 1878. Butler served with the 9th Cavalry during the...
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Apr 18, 20232 min read
Webster, Harrison
Corporal Harrison Webster was born June 12th, 1887 in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. He traveled to Canada and in October 1916, enlisted to...
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Apr 13, 20232 min read
Greenidge, Hewburn
He was discharged to return to his medical studies on December 2, 1918. He resumed his studies at the University of Manitoba and graduated
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Mar 31, 20233 min read
Tyler, Arthur ‘Seymour’
Arthur ‘Seymour’ Tyler was born in New Brunswick February 1897. In the fall of 1915, he tried to join the 104th Battalion along with 18...
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Mar 24, 20233 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
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
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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