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Last year, those boxes were part of a pilot project, with only 250 in use across Canada. This year, there are 2,000 tap pay tribute boxes, and Victoria has 10 of them.
VICTORIA Royal Canadian Legion branches in B.C. are struggling, and many may not survive, so legion brass has renewed its call for a provincial exemption from paying property taxes. “We have been advocating previous governments in the past and it’s fallen on deaf ears,” said Valerie MacGregor, president of the legion’s BC/Yukon Command. “There are provinces in Canada (where) no legion branches pay property taxes,” said Angus Stanfield, vice president of Dominion Command. The Victoria branch got its tax bill yesterday. “That bill was $92,656.30,” said Patti Stockton, president of the Trafalgar/Pro Patria Legion Branch 292.