Small Talk: Guest Speaker Peter Martin

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…