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Small Talk: Guest Speaker Peter Martin

Tue, Mar 10

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Transcona Museum

Guest Speaker Peter Martin discussing the "No Stone Left Alone" project and his experiences visiting World War sites in France.

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Small Talk: Guest Speaker Peter Martin
Small Talk: Guest Speaker Peter Martin

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Mar 10, 2020, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Transcona Museum, 141 Regent Avenue West, Winnipeg, MB R2C 1R1, Canada

About the event

Peter will be sharing highlights of “the Pilgrimage of Remembrance” he took in 2019.  Peter spent two weeks visiting all, the major battlefields of WW l and WW ll in France , Belgium and Holland. A big part of the tour was visiting Cemeteries and monuments where Canadian soldiers are buried  and / or honoured. 

One of the trip highlights was relating the Transcona connection to the, major battles and especially the emotion and realization that 119 Transcona soldiers died in battle or as a result of battle and did not return home. 

Peter is very active in Remembrance related activities in Transcona. Each year he speaks to students in a number of Transcona Schools, he is a Speaker with the Memory Project of Canada, he organizes all Grade 6 students in Transcona to participate in a poppy laying ceremony in the transcona Field of Honour during Remembrance week, he…

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141 Regent Avenue West

Winnipeg, MB R2C 1R1

204-222-0423

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The Transcona Museum is located on ancestral lands, on Treaty One Territory. These lands are the National Homeland of the Red River Métis. Our drinking water is sourced from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation. We respect the Treaties made on these territories, acknowledge the harms and mistakes of the past, and dedicate ourselves to moving forward in partnership with Indigenous communities in a spirit of reconciliation and collaboration.

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