Newspaper articles from the Fort William Daily Times (FW) and the Port Arthur News Chronicle (PA). Click on the article title and the article will appear in a new window.

Aid / Fundraising

FW June 7, 1919 Farm Loans for Soldiers, The Soldier Settlement Board
FW June 9, 1919 Battalion Pin Given To Busy Bees
FW June 18, 1919 Discharged Returned Soldiers
FW June 28, 1919 War Veterans Association Tax Request

Biography

FW June 2, 1919 For the Glory of The Maple Leaf, Col. J B Harstone, D.S.O., O.B.E
FW June 13, 1919 For the Glory of The Maple Leaf, Corp E J F Simpson, D.C.M
FW June 14, 1919 Lionel Humphrey home and settling at head of lake
FW June 16, 1919 Lance Corporal G Sargent write up in English Paper
FW June 16, 1919 Staff Sergeant North (more)
FW June 21, 1919 For the Glory of The Maple Leaf, Lieutenant Walter Hogarth
FW June 21, 1919 For the Glory of The Maple Leaf, Lieutenant Walter Hogarth
FW June 24, 1919 For the Glory of The Maple Leaf Private W G Bailey
FW June 26, 1919 Threw Gift Book to Earth As His Plane Crashed Down, Details of Heroic Death of William Dougal
FW June 28, 1919 For the Glory of The Maple Leaf, Captain Roy S Kirkup

Great War Veterans’ Assoc

PA June 30, 1919 Great War Veteran Canada Day Celebration

Honouring / Celebrating

FW June 7, 1919 Military Banquet
PA June 7, 1919 Returned Officers To Hold Dinner
FW June 30, 1919 Keep Them Smiling, Fort William’s Major Tribute to the Men Who Stood Their Guns, Dawns With the Sun

Memorial

FW June 28, 1919 General Meeting For All Returned Men

Returning Home

PA June 2, 1919 Lieutenant Col. J B Harstone, D.S.O., O.B.E. — Home
FW June 2, 1919 Gunner F R Eberts home
PA June 4, 1919 Captain W. J. Lucy Returning
FW June 4, 1919 Private Fred Powell home
FW June 4, 1919 Private Thomas Copeland home
FW June 6, 1919 Regimental Sergeant Major J A Stover home
PA June 7, 1919 Captain Ridgeway Here
FW June 13, 1919 Gordon Robertson home
FW June 14, 1919 Arthur Strang home
FW June 16, 1919 Staff Sergeant E H North home
PA June 18, 1919 Private Crawford Andrew Home
FW June 18, 1919 Gunner George Walker home
FW June 19, 1919 Acting-Regimental Sergeant-Major Harold Stanworth home
FW June 19, 1919 Sapper E J Aris home
PA June 19, 1919 Lieutenant Col. L T Martin home
PA June 19, 1919 Private Lawrence Reoch home today or tomorrow
PA June 20, 1919 Private Lawrence Reoch home, brother Private William still in England
PA June 20, 1919 Private W C McCallum and Private Greg Neelin home
PA June 21, 1919 Private A L Gouley home
PA June 21, 1919 Private George Graham home
PA June 21, 1919 Private R E Garrett almost home
PA June 23, 1919 Private Stanley Lalonde home
FW June 23, 1919 Private W Foxton and others home
PA June 24, 1919 Private H Knott home
PA June 24, 1919 Private Lloyd Seaman expected home in August
FW June 24, 1919 Private J Armstrong home
FW June 25, 1919 Lance Corporal George Sidney Nicol home

Lists of Returned Soldiers

PA June 2, 1919 More Men Return
FW June 3, 1919 Soldiers Home Again
FW June 3, 1919 Some of the Soldier arrivals today
FW June 5, 1919 Local Men home in a few days
PA June 10, 1919 Returning Soldiers
PA June 11, 1919 Returning Soldiers
PA June 12, 1919 Thirty Returned Men Come Today
FW June 12, 1919 Local Men on way home
FW June 16, 1919 Following Local men Home
PA June 17, 1919 Returning Officers
PA June 17, 1919 Returning Soldiers
FW June 20, 1919 Following Local men arrive in Halifax, home today
PA June 23, 1919 Eighty Nine District Men Home Today
FW June 24 ,1919 Local men arrive at Quebec
FW June 24, 1919 Returned Yesterday (88 men)
PA June 24, 1919 Returning Soldiers landed in Quebec

Revive the 96th

FW June 4, 1919 To Revive 96th
PA June 10, 1919 Returned Officers Plan To Revive 96th
FW June 10, 1919 Returned Officers Promise Support to Re-Organization of Famous 52nd

War Honours

FW June 17, 1919 Major Dawson of the 96th has badges for former members
FW June 18, 1919 Members 96th L S Regiment Class C Badge
PA June 19, 1919 Civilian Soldier, Major General, Sir F O W Loomis, KCB
FW June 21, 1919 52nd Battalion Major awarded another medal

War Saving Stamps

PA June 9, 1919 Sale of Thrift Stamps in Schools
PA June 26, 1919 Awards For Sales of Thrift Stamps
FW June 28, 1919 Waste Not, Want Not, The National War Savings Committee