[FINAL REMINDER] Join Us For Our Remembrance Day Service – Saturday, 08 November 2025

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Join the Branch 25 of the Royal Canadian Legion (representing the San Francisco Bay Area) for their annual Remembrance Day Service. The service will take place at the Royal Canadian Legion plot in Liberty Cemetery on 170 Liberty Road in Petaluma at 11am on Saturday, 08 November.

If you are unable to attend in person and wish to view the online stream, please register at:

https://tourouniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TA9ujjlwQfmyRz8jLLeOBw

More information can be found at https://royalcanadianlegionus25.com/remembrance-day-service/

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A reminder of this initiative by the Legion Foundation.

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Only Days Left to get your 2025 Digital Poppy

Haven’t you secured your Digital Poppy? There’s Still Time!

Remembrance Day is just around the corner, and there’s still time to join thousands of Canadians in honouring our Veterans this Remembrance period, with a Digital Poppy.

From your lapel to your screens, support Canada’s Veterans in every way that matters.

Create yours today at www.mypoppy.ca — available now until November 11th.

Your Digital Poppy does more than honour, it supports real people. By creating yours, donations fund programs that improve the lives of Veterans and their families. You’ll also receive an instant tax receipt for your generous gift.

Once created, your Digital Poppy can be shared online, on social media, in emails, and across communities, helping unite Canadians in reflection and remembrance. Each one tells a story, celebrates courage, and ensures the service of our Veterans is never forgotten.

If you need assistance our team is here to help at digitalpoppy@lnfcanada.ca.

PS- if you’ve already created your 2025 Digital Poppy, thank you for standing with our Veterans.

Lest we Forget,

Thomas D. Irvine, CD

Board Chair

The Legion National Foundation

CREATE MY POPPY

Avez-vous votre Coquelicot numérique? Il est encore temps!

Le jour du Souvenir approche à grands pas, et il est encore temps de rejoindre des milliers de Canadiens pour honorer nos anciens combattants durant cette période du Souvenir, avec un Coquelicot numérique.

D’aujourd’hui jusqu’au 11 novembre, créez le vôtre sur moncoquelicot.ca

Votre Coquelicot numérique fait plus qu’honorer : il soutient des personnes réelles. En le créant, vos dons financent des programmes qui améliorent la vie des anciens combattants et de leurs familles. Vous recevrez également un reçu fiscal immédiat pour votre généreux don.

Une fois créé, votre Coquelicot numérique peut être partagé en ligne, sur les réseaux sociaux, par courriel et dans les communautés, aidant à unir les Canadiens dans la réflexion et le souvenir. Chaque coquelicot raconte une histoire, célèbre le courage et garantit que le service de nos anciens combattants ne soit jamais oublié.

Si vous avez besoin d’aide, notre équipe est là pour vous à digitalpoppy@lnfcanada.ca

P.S. – si vous avez déjà créé votre coquelicot numérique 2025, merci de soutenir nos anciens combattants.

N’oublions jamais,

Thomas D. Irvine, CD
Président du Conseil
Fondation nationale Légion

CRÉER MON COQUELICOT

Ottawa, ON

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Poppy Campaign 2025: San Francisco Bay Area Curling Club

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Once again you can pick up your Poppy from the San Francisco Bay Area Curling Club.

The club is located at:

8450 Enterprise Way
Oakland, CA

If you aren’t able to make it out to the club, you can also reach out to Jay Diamond of California Curling Supplies.

Branch 25 thanks the Bay Area Curling Club and Jay for their continued support of the annual Poppy Campaign.

Excerpt from O Canada: War & Hockey

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An item from the Legion Magazine.

In one of hockey’s oldest rivalries, the Royal Military College of Canada plays against the United States Military Academy West Point in Kingston, Ont., on Feb. 1, 2025, for the 102nd time. [United States Military Academy West Point]

Excerpt from O Canada: War & Hockey

STORY BY STEPHEN SMITH

Hockey is the game we hold dearest in Canada, the one we define ourselves by, still. It’s a haven for our identity, and it’s where we cultivate our national pride— and store our strategic reserve of contradictions, too. We like to think of it as a natural resource, of course, hewn from the wintry north, and forged by us into the game—and the passion—it has become, even as it, too, has forged us.

The story isn’t quite that straightforward, we should acknowledge. While hockey does indeed have roots in Indigenous games of stick-and- ball, it owes much as well to migrant imports: Scottish shinty, Irish hurling and various golf-like Dutch diversions. But isn’t that a Canadian story in itself?

Remembrance Trio – Buy two, get third FREE!

Military historian and author Fred Gaffen has summarized Canada’s role in WW II in his latest book Path To Victory. [Burnstown Publishing House]

Historian Fred Gaffen recounts Canada’s WW II story in a new single-volume book

STORY BY ALEX BOWERS

Military historian and author Fred Gaffen is the first to admit that there are “so many books written about the Second World War, many of them by Canadians.” Nevertheless, he argues, a proportion might appear to be a “bit too formidable,” perhaps especially for those who want the facts without academic rabbit holes.

Gaffen cites his grandchildren and new Canadians interested in history as two motivators for writing his recent book, Path to Victory: Canada and the Second World War 1939 – 1945, released in August 2025 by Burnstown Publishing House.