Photo by Jack Ronalds -- Pictured are (from the left): Branch 43 Bar Manager Nicole Pottie; Branch 43 Poppy Chair Rod Corbett; Zone Commander John Langley; Branch 43 President Gary Burns; Flag Day Committee Chair Anna Marie Langley; and Branch 43 Treasurer Marguerite Howlett. Missing from the photograph were: Adelene Embree; Lorna MacRury; Leo MacDonald; and Ethan Hendsbee-Rankin (great grandson of veterans Lawrence Hendsbee and John Angus MacLean).

PORT HAWKESBURY: One little known local tradition at Royal Canadian Legion Branch 43 Port Hawkesbury is the placement of miniature Canadian Maple Leaf Flags (or on a family’s request a Union Jack) next to the gravestones of local veterans who have passed away. This is done each year on the anniversary date of the D-Day…

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