Father's Day Stuff

[mbarrick]

Yesterday I was in bustling downtown Ladner with Elaine. Since we will be in New York next week this was an early Father's Day thing for her dad. We met her parents at the Legion and I did something I've been meaning to do for years. I brought a copy of my father's discharge papers along with me and signed up. I am now an associate member of the Royal Canadian Legion.

What does this mean? I have signed to the effect that I am not a communist (sorry, Dave, guess you can't join), a fascist, or an anarchist. It means I stand for Canadian unity, Canadian sovereignty, and Canada's rôle as a peacekeeper. Most of all though, it means I can get $2.50 pints and play pool for 50¢ ;-).

Comments

Re: Great Patriotic War

[sovietnimrod.livejournal.com]

What made me think of this is that the last two years during the Rememberance Day ceremonies at Victory Square, there has been this old man (with walrus moustache á là Red Cavalry!) who wears his Soviet uniform tunic and his chestfull of medals.

(And no - this isn't me sporting one of my Hallowe'en costumes)

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Yeah, I was thinking McCarthyism as well for the origin of those 'requirements' - it just could be well that no one's made a huge fuss or bothered to enforce them in recent years.

Mind you, in specific regards to keeping out all the Reds, this *might* even hark back to WW1 and the 1919 Red Scare of the OBU in Winnipeg. "Fascists" and "anarchists" (mind you, which strikes me as being an odd thing to single out...) could have been added later.

Re: Great Patriotic War

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Probably not 1919 since the Legion was founded in 1924.

But, yeah, one way or the other I doubt these things are enforced.

GWVA in 1920

[sovietnimrod.livejournal.com]

That's interesting.

During my lacrosse research, I came across a couple of clubs in Vancouver and New Westminster that were sponsered (or possibly manned) by veterans associations in ca.1920 - such as the Great War Veterans Association... they must have been local outfits.

Lacrosse and Legions

[sovietnimrod.livejournal.com]

Actually, somewhat related to my last post, the Mount Pleasant Legion No.177 sponsered a Junior 'A' team that won the Minto Cup in 1956.

I've always been half-tempted to find a way in there and see if they have any memorabillia relating to that championship up on their walls, etc.