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Lives behind the Commemorative Banners: Fall Banner News 2023
This fall will mark the 7th year that Banners will be hung on the main streets of both Port Elgin and Southampton honouring those...
Lives Behind the Commemorative Banners – John Rowan Geddes: November 3, 1917
John Rowand Geddes was born in Port Elgin to Alexander and Elizabeth Geddes. The family farmed on Lot 11 at the corner of Bruce...
New Markdale Hospital set to open under new banner Brightshores Health System
After decades of planning, hard work, and community support, the new Markdale Hospital will be opening September 24th at 220 Toronto Street South, Markdale...
Lives behind the Commemorative Banners: Fall Banner News 2022
This fall, 2022, will mark the 6th year that Commemorative Banners will be hung on the main streets of both Port Elgin and Southampton...
Lives behind the Commemorative Banners: November, 2020
Angus Munroe Mcleod was born in Southampton on October 8, 1910. His father Angus was one of the MacLeod(s) that arrived in Canada from...
Lives behind the Commemorative Banners: Southampton-Saugeen First Nation-November 2020
WWI
There were few soldiers that served for Canada in both WWI and WWII. One that did just that was Mathew Solomon Mandawoub of Saugeen...
Lives behind the Commemorative Banners – November, 2020
As we draw closer to Remembrance Day, Wednesday November 11th, we are continuing to take a look at the Lives behind the Commemorative Banners...
Lives behind the Commemorative Banners – an update
In yesterday's Part 13 of 'Lives behind the Commemorative Banners', we highlighted Charles Morris Gilbert, but the story barely scratched the surface of this...
Lives behind the Commemorative Banners: Part 14 – Port Elgin
John Rowand Geddes was born in 1894 and got his first education at then Gowanlock school and then at Port Elgin High School. ...
Lives behind the Commemorative Banners: Part 13 – Port Elgin
Not much is known about Charles Morris Gilbert but he was born in 1898 in Port Elgin, the eldest son of Charles and Maggie...
Lives behind the Commemorative Banners: Part 12 – Southampton-Saugeen First Nation
First Nations' men played an integral role in Canada's war efforts both in WWI and WWII.
In WWI, three young brothers, Arthur, Ernest and Maurice...
Lives behind the Commemorative Banners: Part 11 – Port Elgin
John Amer Howe's story is remarkable in that he enlisted in both WWI and WWII and was the highest-ranking soldier from the area to...
Lives behind the Commemorative Banners: Part 10 – Southampton
Separated by only three years, the two young Tranter cousins went off to war ... the Great War, WWI.
Neither returned
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP8mUHoZkAM&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rdSVrzj7E0&feature=youtu.be
Researched by G. William Streeter
Lest...
Lives behind the Commemorative Banners: Part 9 – Saugeen Township
In January of 1918, Herbert Leeder, reported to the Western Ontario
Regiment Armoury in London to enlist in the 4th Canadian Army Reserve Battalion of the...
