PPCLI Memorial

Today the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI) undertook the consecration of their memorial which had originally been place d at Lansdowne Park in 1974. In 2012 the memorial had been removed and placed in storage while the area underwent redevelopment. The old memorial was placed above a new plinth of black granite from India…

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Peacekeepers’ Day – 2015

The 9th of August was the day chosen to honour the sacrifices of Peacekeepers because it was the day in which a United Nations Buffalo transport aircraft was shot down by a Syrian missile in 1974. With that act, Canada lost 9 Peacekeepers, the single greatest loss of Peacekeepers in Canadian history. The ceremony doesn’t…

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