WWI Men of Beckwith & Lanark County– Remembering Remembrance Day

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No. 5 Company (Carleton Place) 41st Brockville Battalion of Rifles.From left to right:
James Storey, William Dack, Donald Stewart, William Duff, Patrick Tucker — Photo from Carleton Place and Beckwith Heritage Museum

TOMORROW AT THE North Lanark Regional Museum in Appleton

647 River Road
Almonte, Ontario
(613) 257-8503

Join us at the North Lanark Regional Museum tomorrow Sunday, November 8th, at 2:00 pm, for Rob More’s talk “Remembering WWI Men of Beckwith & Lanark.” The final guest in our Fall Speaker Series, Rob More is a teacher and author and has published multiple books on local military history, including Lanark’s Legacy: The 46 WWI Casualties, The Lost Generation of Mississippi Mills: WWI Casualties, and Beckwith’s Heroes: An Anthology of WWI Veterans. Sunday is also the opening of our new exhibition on military history, Joy and Sorrow: 1945, which commemorates the end of WWII and the return to civilian life. Admission is by donation. Refreshments will be provided.

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About lindaseccaspina

Before she laid her fingers to a keyboard, Linda was a fashion designer, and then owned the eclectic store Flash Cadilac and Savannah Devilles in Ottawa on Rideau Street from 1976-1996. She also did clothing for various media and worked on “You Can’t do that on Television”. After writing for years about things that she cared about or pissed her off on American media she finally found her calling. She is a weekly columnist for the Sherbrooke Record and documents history every single day and has over 6500 blogs about Lanark County and Ottawa and an enormous weekly readership. Linda has published six books and is in her 4th year as a town councillor for Carleton Place. She believes in community and promoting business owners because she believes she can, so she does.

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