WWI

Saturday May 23 rd 2026
10 a.m. “A Silver Cross Mother”
The Memorial cross, also known as the Silver Cross, was first created
in 1919 for all the mothers and widows of Canadian military personnel
who died in service. The story of one Silver Cross mother, re-enactor
Tracy Gordon

11 a.m. “Boys to Men”
From 1951 to 1965 those who volunteered to be soldiers who were
under age participated in regular training and upgrading their
scholastic knowledge became part of the regular armed forces after
two years and saw active service. Dough Heil

1 p.m. “Marching Orders”
The creation and continued operation of a successful mobile First World
War education day program of History Matters. A photo rich presentation
outlining this program’s outreach and development with Jeff Brown
2 p.m. “Canadian Military Medicine in the Great War”

During the Great War the Canadian Army Medical Corps (CAMC)
expanded rapidly to treat massive casualties, with over half of all Canadian
physicians serving overseas. It was the worlds largest medical conference
in the world’s worst hotel re-enactor and researcher Peter Monahan

3 p.m. “Rush to Danger”
A front-line recounting of the experiences of stretcher-bearers, medical
corpsmen, nurses, surgeons, orderlies, dentists, and ambulance drivers
from the American Civil War to Afghanistan with military historian
Ted Barris

7 p.m. “Valor Remembered – A Dream to Reality”
Researching the men and women of Dutton-Dunwich who served in
the Canadian Military and who are now memorialized in the recently
dedicated cenotaph local historian Blair Furguson

Sunday May 24 th 2026

1 p.m. “Bluebirds in the Poppy Field”
On the night of May 19-20 in 1918 a German air raid targeted a cluster
of Canadian and British field hospitals along the railways of Etapls France
six Canadian Nursing Siters were killed. Nancy Iron-Murray

2 p.m. “The Liberation Trail”
A film made in 2017 to mark the 70 th anniversary of the liberation
of Holland, which follows two former 1 st Hussars who took part in the
this theater of war by Lt. Colonel Joe Murray

Admission both days by donation