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We're proud of the word 'volunteer.' Nobody forced us. We were good Canadians, patriots. We fought for our country," said Syd Moore, an Aboriginal Second World War veteran.
"We'll never forget what you've done. We know how much you've given. Thank you," he said as he gave each a hand-made pin created by Huron-Wendat silversmith Michel Savard.
In this, the Year of the Veteran, Canada has decided to honor Native soldiers past and present in a special way. On Oct. 25, 20 Aboriginal veterans and 13 Aboriginal youth selected from across the country met in Ottawa. Veterans Affairs and the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs has organized the Aboriginal Spiritual Journey whose delegation will travel to some of Europe's biggest battle fields. (Windspeaker will accompany the delegation an...
... war dead who are buried in Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries and other cemeter...
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... a foreign government, nor the Commonwealth War Graves Commission nor any other agency provide...
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[...] Brandon already has several memorials honouring war veterans. Interestingly, after the First World War, Brandon city council refused to contribute to a veterans' memorial. [...] what about that proposal for another war veterans' memorial in Brandon?
... of 24 in Canada maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Brandon's is unusual as it ...
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... sur bande vidéo par voie de commissions rogatoires comme ses propres éléments de preuve,...(2d) 557; Polyukhovich c. Commonwealth of Australia (1991), 101 A.L.R. 545; Balcombe c. T...C'est à mon avis en raison des graves erreurs commises à l'égard de ces questions qu'u...
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... ni un gouvernement étranger, ni la Commonwealth War Graves Commission, ni aucun autre organisme n'...
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... left Canadian communities here with no graves. War memorials, or cenotaphs, recognize that the b... was a member of the Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission. In Brandon, a "Cross of Sa...
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The Israeli military has since issued a statement indicating "there is no intention whatsoever to harm or damage sacred places, including cemeteries" and that its commanders "target only infrastructures which are used for terror activities.
Five headstones close to the wall were smashed. They mark the graves of five Canadians -- Flying Officer Joseph Picard, Sapper John Lorienz, Signalman Philip Crouse, Pte. Edward Fickling, and Pte. Alfred Hurst -- who died during tours of duty with the United Nations Expeditionary Force in Egypt.
... over damage to a historic Commonwealth war cemetery, including the graves of several Cana... section of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, complained to the Daily Telegraph that Israel sho...
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...Commission to Jacques Cartier from Philippe Chabot, Admiral o... retired--indeed, after they were in their graves--but it was not welcomed by readers. Some reviews ... himself playing, for example, at a Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Singapore in Januar...
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Now Sean Atkinson, a 42-year-old Englishman who grew up near the crash site and was told about it by his father and neighbours said he now wants to commemorate the seven Canadian crash victims who died in the failed flight early July 11, 1944.
I've lived in this house since I was five years old, and I know there is nothing there, not any kind of sign these airmen had been killed there," said Atkinson.
"They came from your country and they actually gave their lives. That's the ultimate sacrifice," said Atkinson.
... the city of York, according to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website and the Yorkshire Ai...
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...Nouvelle-Écosse (Commission d'enquête sur la tragédie de la mine Westray), [...R. 476; Commonwealth c. Temwood Holdings Pty Ltd. (2001), 25 W.A.R. 31,... Jade a subi un certain nombre d'accidents graves, dont un accident de bicyclette alors qu'elle éta...