Source: The Canadian Press Staff, ctvnews.ca, November 14, 2020 The are eight Canadians shortlisted to be on the new $5 bill. OTTAWA — A diverse group of notable Canadians, including Indigenous advocates and veterans, an Inuit artist and the first person of Chinese descent born in this country have been shortlisted to appear on the… Continue reading Eight Possible Canadians for New Five Dollar Bill
Tag: Remembrance
Nursing Home Residents Knit Large Remembrance Day Display
Source: Ashley Field, globalnews.ca, November 11, 2020 Residents, their family members, volunteers and community members contributed to the project — a display of over 2,000 knit and crocheted poppies, which took nearly one year to complete. Remembrance Day has always been meaningful to 89-year-old Evelyn Graves. “I always went to the cenotaph and took my… Continue reading Nursing Home Residents Knit Large Remembrance Day Display
Humboldt, Sask. students join No Stone Left Alone remembrance effort
Source: Ryan Kessler, Global News, November 4, 2019 Alexis Galambos was struck by a sense of loss as she reached into a brown paper bag and placed a poppy on a veteran’s headstone at a Humboldt, Sask., cemetery. During the city’s first No Stone Left Alone ceremony, she and her Grade 7 classmates from Humboldt Public School also… Continue reading Humboldt, Sask. students join No Stone Left Alone remembrance effort