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By Winifresi 0. Braes
THE LEGIONARY, NOVEMBER
A Fi4 who paced he flame the warrior', w,ay.
P4 ably to win a greater freedom ye4
C anada bails thee, slerio+t, tet apart, ,
E „thrb,ed ,within a nation's grater! heart.
® ay ol Rem.mbra,m! Tbrorgb bereaved years,
A t rat forever with thy praadel paws,
Y oath' Mod, Ago, Ware thee, t s,.gb with tears. countries War,of
course, is a are destroyed, horriblerwiththe
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1960 people who live in them. No one knows this
better than war veterans, and so no one
was happier when the war ended than the
thousands of Canadians who fought in
them.
But what kind of country did they return
home to? It is one of the ironies of the Se-
cond World War that the men and women
who came home found thatthough
had
they
transformed their country, even
they had been away from it.
Consider some of the things that had
happened while they were serving
overseas. Canada had gone to war as a
producer of raw materials and
agricultural goods, and she ended it as one
of the world's great -manufacturing na-
tions. She had started the war as a largely
rural country and by its end urbanization
had made large strides. Her cities had
mushroomed.
Other things had happened. When Japan
overran the rubber plantations of Asia,
Canada promised to produce synthetic
rubber. By war's end, 10 plants were in
operation and Canadians were turning out
Donald Bert,
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Dinner -dance
first event
of Jubillee
The first major event of the Branch 109
60th birthday celebration will be a dinner -
dance to be held in the. Jubilee Room on
Saturday, November 14. The speaker will
. be the Dominion 1st vice-prqsident Gaston
Garceau and most of the past presidents of
Branch 109 are to be in attendance. Tickets
areon sale for $15 per person now and all
Branch 109 members may attend provided
they purchase their tickets to this Legion
dinner and dance early as theseating
capacity of the Jubilee Room is limited to
200. Ticket sales are restricted to members -
of Branch 109 and its Auxiliary but you may
be accompanied by your spouse or your
escort. This initial event of the Branch Dia-
mond Jubilee celebration is shaping up to be
a memorable night in the history of Branch
109.
How the GWars
ed the country
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15 kinds of rubber. It was the same kind of
story for the vehicle manufacturing in-
dustry and so many other things.
For Canada's veterans, the return home
must have made them feel a bit like Rip
Van Winkle did after his long sleep: It was
still the same country, but it had been
transformed.
But even if there was some apprehension
about the kind of country they would be
returning home to, it couldn't hide the joy
they felt when the war in Europe ended.
Canadians celebrated from coast to coast
and in Europe,. but perhaps one soldier
from British Columbia's Westminster
Regiment put it best. He was shaving on
VE -Day when he happened to look at his
image in the mirror. "Boy", he exclaimed,
"am I glad to see you."
The changes that the veterans returned
home to didn't stop them — or Canadians
— from remembering the country's 114,000
war dead. And that is one thingthat hasn't
changed in the 42 years since the war. end-
ed. The Legion's Poppy Campaign is just
as successful now as it was in 1945. Cana-
dians still remember.
Congratulations
Goderich Legion Branch 109
on 60 years of Service
and Dedication.
We would like to
CONGRATULATE
Our Neighbours -
GODERICH LEGION
BRANCH 109
on their
60th ANNIVERSARY
BEST WISHES!
JIM HAYTER CHEV-OLDS LTD
74 Kingston St., Goderich 524-8130