Monthly Archives: October 2025

Your 2025 Digital Poppy is Here!

In addition to the digital Poppy, you can request a Poppy directly from the Branch.  Just contact us.


Your Digital Poppy is Back!

The 2025 Digital Poppy campaign is now live, and it starts with you!

Thank you for including the Digital Poppy in your annual Remembrance traditions.

Your continued participation ensures the sacrifices of the past are Never Forgotten.

The Digital Poppy campaign is waiting for you at www.mypoppy.ca.

From today until November 11, create a Digital Poppy and dedicate it to someone important in your life by adding their name. You may choose to honour the Fallen, remember a family member, or pay tribute to all Canadian Heroes.

Your Digital Poppy does more than honour, it directly supports Veterans and their families. Donations are directed to The Legion National Foundation to fund programs that enhance the well-being and quality of life of those who served and sacrficed. You’ll receive an instant tax receipt for your generous contribution.

Our Veterans stood for Canada. Now your support stands with them. Each Digital Poppy shared online on social media, in email signatures, and across digital communities brings Canadians together and inspires reflection from coast to coast to coast.

Don’t wait! Create your Digital Poppy today at www.mypoppy.ca and help build a future worthy of the service of our Veterans.

If you have any questions or need assistance, please contact our team at digitalpoppy@lnfcanada.ca. We’re here to help!

With thanks,

Thomas D. Irvine, CD

Board Chair

Legion National Foundation

Votre Coquelicot numérique est de retour !

Salute! October 2025

A newsletter from Veterans Affairs Canada that may be of interest to members.


October 2025

The latest issue of Salute! is now available.

Read Salute! online
Let us know what you think about Salute! by emailing us.

Sincerely,

Salute! Team

Veterans Affairs Canada

Veterans Affairs Canada
PO Box 6000
Matane, QC G4W 0E4

A Cornish toast to historian Tim Cook

An item from the Legion Magazine.


Front Lines
Front Lines

Historian Tim Cook was a frequent contributor to Legion Magazine. He died on Oct. 25, 2025.
[Marie Louise Deruaz]

A Cornish toast to historian Tim Cook

STORY BY ALEX BOWERS

The traditional Cornish fishing village of Mevagissey, situated on the west coast of England, seemed like as good a place as any to discover the works of Canada’s “preeminent military historian” Tim Cook. It was a pleasant enough day, just after Christmas, while outside, parting clouds and a tame ocean breeze presented prime conditions for exploration—to amble along cobbled streets, to frequent ye olde pubs, perhaps even to trek through the hills bound for oh-so-near Pentewan.

The urge, however, was absent. Quayside saunters and savoured pints could wait. Far more tantalizing was Cook’s newly unwrapped tome, The Necessary War, Volume 1: Canadians Fighting The Second World War: 1939-1943, a gift from a bemused father-in-law wondering why a Brit would desire such a seemingly obscure read.

READ MORE

Silk Scarf & Scarf Ring Bundle
The Briefing
The Briefing

Victoria Cross Medal (left). Private Jess Randall Larochelle (right). [CORPORAL ISSA PARÉ, RIDEAU HALL © OSGG-BSGG, 2007; DND]

Campaign group renews efforts to award Jess Larochelle the Victoria Cross

STORY BY ALEX BOWERS

Canadian Armed Forces veteran Bruce Moncur knows what makes a legend. He wasn’t present to witness the exploits of Royal Canadian Regiment comrade, Jess Randall Larochelle, on Oct. 14, 2006, having himself been wounded in a friendly fire incident in Afghanistan several weeks earlier, but he didn’t need to. Why would he, the now-5th grade teacher argues, when the tale spoke for itself?

That day, Larochelle’s platoon encountered a numerically superior Taliban force while manning a remote observation post. Two soldiers had already been killed when the Restoule, Ont., private, having sustained a broken back and fractured neck vertebrae amid the battle, all but singlehandedly fought off 40 insurgents by machine gun and rocket-propelled grenade for an hour, perhaps even more.

READ MORE

Member Benefit Partner

Medipac

Veterans Day at Presidio Chapel – November 11, 2025 at 11 am

For any members who may be in San Francisco itself on Veterans Day.


Interfaith Center at the Presidio

Unleashing the Power of

Interreligious Cooperation

Veterans Day Interfaith Service

Please join us

on Tuesday, November 11, 2025 at 11:00 am

Presidio Chapel

130 Fisher Loop, San Francisco

Keynote Address by Ms. Elena Kim

Chief Operating Officer, Swords to Plowshares

Please RSVP to: presidiointerfaith@gmail.com

Upcoming concert and interfaith service dates:

  • November 11: Veterans Day Interfaith Service
  • November 15: The New Choir Holiday Concert
  • December 24: Christmas Eve Mass

2026

  • January 24: Chiara D’Odorico Piano Recital
  • February 14: Baroque Ensemble Concert
  • March 14: Junwen Liang Piano Recital
  • April 18: Celeste Stella Trio
  • May 25: Memorial Day Interfaith Service

Interfaith Center at the Presidio

P.O. Box 29055, San Francisco, CA 94129

(415) 561-3930 (office)

www.interfaithpresidio.org * mailto: presidiointerfaith@gmail.com

Veterans’ Week 2025 and Remembrance Day are almost here! // La semaine des vétérans 2025 et le jour du Souvenir approchent à grands pas !

An item from Veterans Affairs Canada that may be of interest to teachers in our region.