The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 57 and the Korean War. Now, they are adding the names of Peace Keepers who have served in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq and other war-torn countries. The money to build this memorial was donated by Veterans and their families. At present, there are 30 members of Paddockwood Branch 31, and they operate through volunteers and friends. The Branch is very active in the community. They hold Remembrance Day Services, followed by a dinner for the community, as well as celebrate Decoration Day at the local cemetery, placing white crosses with Canadian flags on each veteran’s grave, usually done on V.E. Day. The Branch also supports the local hockey rink, give bursaries to grandchildren of Veterans, support other charities, as well as Provincial Command Projects. They hold Legion Golf Tournaments, Pot Luck Suppers, Soup & Sandwich Lunches and other fund-raisers. The Ladies’Auxiliary to the Branch was chartered on March 31, 1927. The fifteen charter members were: O. Campbell, M. Davis, Mrs. T. Dixon, L. Hazelwood, E. Hickey, A. Merrel, N. Milligan, D. Piercy, M. Piercy, Mrs. J. Sinden, A. Plaxton, M. Street, V. Thorburn, B. Weeks, and F. Wilson. Following the Second World War, a re-organizing meeting was held at the Paddockwood Hall on May 16, 1946. Twenty new members joined. The Auxiliary has supported the Branch in all their endeavors and projects. Mrs. Hazel Henderson is the only original member from 1946 who is still a member. Clara Wiberg was the Zone Representative from 1988 to 1998, and District Representative from 1998 to 2000. Every year, the Ladies’Auxiliary holds a Christmas Banquet for all the Veterans in the community, along with all the Legion members. Motto of Paddockwood Branch 31: To Serve Our Veterans and Our Country PADDOCKWOOD BRANCH 31 (...Cont’d) SILTON BRANCH 33 (Cont’d...) Chartered 11 January, 1927 Ladies’Auxiliary Charter 10 June 1931- Surrendered January 2000 Silton, Saskatchewan, today a mixed cattle and grain farming bedroom community, some 50 kilometres north-west of Regina, situated on a plain within the apex of the beautiful Qu' Appelle Valley - a place where the wonders of nature's glaciers have carved from prairie flatlands, the curving 60-mile Last Mountain Lake bed - the migration path of all species of waterfowl, upland game birds, deer, fish, berries and furs. Rich valley soil with unlimited lake and river water, today, offer opportunity for thriving market gardens and bountiful orchards. This is the site of an historic Hudson Bay trading post. Paradise indeed, absolutely - but challenged, then as now, by raging grass fires, unrelenting winds of winter blizzards, hot summer dust storms, drought, or alternately gumbo clay and hoards of summer mosquitoes! It was to this area that settlers first looked in 1882, and with this look, became a wave of homesteaders in 1883-84, then continuing as choice land was claimed until 1908-10. Most of these homesteaders stayed, and they or their descendants would become the early volunteers to the call of the empire to the Great War (WWI) in 1914, and again in September 1939, as the hysterics of Adolph Hitler's aggressive Nazi agenda thrust Europe into World War II. Silton's young men and women were quick to volunteer for the duty of king and country - a pride and honour repeated throughout Canada - army, navy, air force, merchant marine, nursing sisters and RCMP stepped forward; 600,000 WWI and 1,100,000 strong in WWII, and nearly 27,000 to Korea – yes, they stood on guard, 0 Canada! A quote from the book Royal Canadian Legion 1926-1986 'ECEGI MNUMENTUM AERE PERENNIUS: “ I have built a memorial more lasting than bronze" is appropriate! The 1986, 60-year diamond jubilee book of tribute to the Royal Canadian Legion includes a picture on page 22 of delegates to the 1919 convention of the 'Great War Veterans Association' referred to as ''the parent of Royal Canadian Legion." Page 1 of the Membership Record of the Great War Veterans Association Silton Branch lists the names, Silton address, regimental number and unit of 16 returned Veteran members covering the years 1919-1921. This membership record continues through 1929, with quarter-year checkmarks for continuing membership or records of transfer with total membership numbers remaining constant at 15 or 16. H.S. Allen is recorded as Secretary/Treasurer and member 1 (one) through 1923, with notation "gone to BC in 1924." The year 1926, top of column, bears written notation "1st year of Canadian Legion." Membership record page for years 1927-1929 now lists members' rural telephone party-line numbers.
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