Virtual Book Launch - Portraits of Battle - Courage, Grief, and Strength in Canada's Great War

June 21st, 2021 | Categories: Events
Portraits of Battle - Courage, Grief, and Strength in Canada's Great War
On June 23rd there will be an online event celebrating the launch of Peter Farrugia’s book Portraits of Battle. Please RSVP through Zoom. About this...

Brantford's First Armistice Day, 1919

November 9th, 2019 | Categories: News
Brantford, Ontario Remembrance Day 1919
BX November 11, 1919 Armistice Day Celebration a General One – King’s Request For Two Minute Suspension of Activities Honoured – Momentary Tribute The King’...

“To the Memory of the Warriors of the Confederacy Who Fell in the Great War.” Marking the 100th Anniversary of the Prince of Wales Visit

October 2nd, 2019 | Categories: News
To the Memory of the Warriors of the Six Nations Confederacy Who Fell in the Great War
BX October 17, 1919 Indian Tablet Thirty-eight names have been raised in bronze on a tablet of bronze which H.R.H. the Prince of Wales will unveil during the welcome ceremonials...

Mohawk Institute Residential School - First World War Honour Roll

September 30th, 2019 | Categories: News
Mohawk Institute Residential School Survivors and the First World War, Brantford, Ontario
Brantford Expositor 1925 Memorial Unveiled at Mohawk Church – Impressive Ceremony Performed by the Bishop of Huron Diocese – Roll of Honor Erected to Former Students Who...

Centennial Anniversary of the Treaty of Versailles - June 28, 2019

June 27th, 2019 | Categories: News
Doing Our Bit

The first of The Paris Peace Treaties, this treaty officially ended the state of war between the Allied Nations and Germany. BX June 28, 1919 Fire Bell Gave Notification...

Kenneth Ashley Lawrence Was the Last Canadian Wounded

October 29th, 2018 | Categories: News
Last Canadian Wounded in World War One, Kenneth Ashley Lawrence
Was The Last Canadian Wounded Kenneth Lawrence, 17-year-old Canadian, who was wounded at three minutes to 11, just before the order of “Cease Fire!” was sent down the...

Remembering the Prisoners of War from Brantford, Brant County and Six Nations - World War One

October 24th, 2018 | Categories: News
Brantford, Brant County, Six Nations Prisoners of War - World War One
During the First World War, over 3,800 Canadian soldiers were taken Prisoner of War by the Germans, and it has been estimated by Ted Wigney in his book, Guests of the Kaiser, that 70% of these...

'Spanish' Influenza Pandemic Map and Brantford, Ontario

October 1st, 2018 | Categories: News
Spanish Influenza and Brantford, Ontario
This year not only marks the centenary of the Armistice of the Great War, but also marks the centenary of the “Spanish Flu.” This pandemic claimed the lives of 410 people from Brantford,...

100th Anniversary World War I Poster

August 31st, 2018 | Categories: News
Doing Our Bit
A poster commemorating the centenary of the end of the Great War is being made available to the public courtesy of the County of Brant Heritage Committee and the Brant County Legions. This poster...

Remembering Those From Grace Anglican Church, Brantford, Ontario

August 20th, 2018 | Categories: News
Grace Anglican Church, Brantford, Ontario - First World War Memorial Plaque
BX April 21, 1924 Dedicatory Tablet Put in Grace Church – Memorial to Forty Members Who Gave Their Lives in the Great War Quietly and with a dignity eminently befitting the...

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