Unmarked Grave Program News Today

Whitehorse, YT - A couple of weather-beaten white wooded crosses blend right in at the cemetery in Mayo and ov...

Two B.C. Reconciliation Awards for 2023 were recently bestowed to a Burnaby non-profit organization, as well as a professor at SFU.

BC chapter of LPF receiving BC Reconciliation Award for Indigenous Veteran Initiative

A program helping discover and mark the graves of veterans in Lethbridge is being called a success.

Kyle Scott, Royal Canadian Legion officer for the district including Mayerthorpe, received the Platinum Jubilee Medal. Read more.

  LETHBRIDGE -- This year marks the 100th year since the poppy was adopted as Canada’s lasting symbol of remembrance and, in Lethbridge the occasion is being commemorated with two different projects. The Royal Canadian Legion General Stewart Branch, in partnership with the Alberta Branch of the Last Post Fund, are partnering to ensure veterans’ commitment and service is not forgotten by future generations. The Last Post Fund’s Unmarked Grave Program provides permanent military marker...

  SWIFT CURRENT -- More than 30 wooden grave markers have been replaced with permanent headstones at the Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Swift Current. The wooden crosses were put up the by the local branch of the Royal Canadian Legion over the years in a section of the cemetery known as the “Field of Honour” for soldiers without an official military marker, many of them from veterans of WWI and WWII. “The wooden crosses were put in place where there was no marker for a deceased veteran,�...