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In Remembrance
story and photo by Paddy McGee
How did small communities ever begin to fill the emptiness created by young lives lost
during the last century's two world wars? Darlingford, in southern Manitoba's Pembina
Valley, found a way. Local farmer and politician Ferris Bolton, himself mourning the First
World War loss of his three sons in France, helped filled his town's void by donating land
towards what would become the Darlingford Memorial and Park. Opened to the public
in 1921, the province's only freestanding war memorial structure houses battle relics
and two plaques memorializing the names of the area's 200-plus young men and
women who courageously made the ultimate sacrifice in both world wars.
If you would like to honour our country's heroes on the 70th anniversary of D-Day,
join CAA Travel on the Remembrance Tour of Normandy next spring.
ℹ 1–800–992–8143; caamanitoba.com/travel; gov.mb.ca/chc/hrb/prov/p058.html
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