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Impressive Ceremony For Unveiling At Altona Road
Impressive and heart-moving, was the Dedication of the Memorial, on Saturday afternoon,
at the corner of the First Concession and the Altona Road. This monument to the school
section's young men who did not come home, and their returned men, will stand as a
testimony and tribute to their memory and for the ""price that was paid for Peace"".
Rev. A. E. Holley, Dunbarton, acted as chairman for the program.
Reeve D. Blake Annis stated he was glad to see the picturesque corner that had come
about. He asked all, to stand, together behind the returned man and help him get back
to civilian life again.
C. E. Morley, President of and for the Horticultural Society was pleased at the willingness
of the Society, to help clean the plot, and to plant trees and flowers. He also paid tribute
to the men who fought so valiantly for us.
Col. Rev. Sidney Lambert, Padre of Christie Street Hospital, unveiled the memorial.
In his remarks he denounced glamorizing the services, by ""handing out cushy jobs"".
We will never have peace among men, unless we work together with God and to try and
help our fellow-men. The place where peace beings is not with wars,
violence and strength, but in the heart, he said.
Mr. Parkinson, a veteran of the First World War then placed a huge wreath on the
monument.
Rev. E. G. Robinson, speaking for those who gave their lives, paid tribute to the men,
and the fathers and mothers who also had to bear the grief of lost loved ones.
""Let us serve until death and always remember these men"", he said.
Mr. W. H. Moore, on behalf of the school section, stated that ''ever since man came to be,
he has been striving for security—the greatest trouble with mankind today, is man.
We must remedy the situation, not by changing the man, but by tolerance, for, therein lies
our success"".
The stone monument, with it's plaque, will always stand in memory of those who died,
and it is a credit to that community in that section where they have not forgotten what their
men did for them.
In scribed on the plaque are the words, ""Semper Fidelis—To The Memory of Those
from this School Section, who served in the Armed Forces, 1939-1945, and to Honor
the Fallen""."
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1946
Unveiled Memorial At Rouge Sat."