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November 10 : 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Orillia Public Library

  • Find "your soldier" with a WWI replica postcard honouring individual local soldiers, nursing sisters and several from the homefront.
  • View exhibits honouring our local soldiers from WWI and WWII, see their faces and learn their stories.
  • Artifacts, uniforms, helmets, weapons from WWI and WWII
  • Special Dumbells exhibit with" never before seen" Dumbells memorabilia.  And meet a Plunkett!  Meet the grandson of Morley Plunkett who joined the Dumbells after the war.
  • Special local exhibits by Simcoe County Museum
  • Special exhibits by Grey and Simcoe Foresters Museum
  • Meet a "WWI and WWII" soldier and a WWI nursing sister
  • Meet sports historian and author, Dave Town.  Ask him questions about our WWI hockey team.
  • Meet historian and author, Marcel Rousseau, his new book tells the story of Camp 26, a WWII training camp located in Orillia 
  • Check out our WWI medic tent
  • Check out a machine gun bunker
  • Interactive activities for all....try on a uniform and helmet!
  • Fred Blair from St. James will have his book on WWI soldiers from St. James

Mississauga St.

  • Walk of Remembrance from Library to Legion, self- guided by a replica soldier's paybook
  • 2 military jeeps with machine guns - Sand bags – gun placement - Military personnel
  • Tent – Sir Sam Steele display

At St. James’ Church

    • Free audio/visual presentation of conceptual Project Remembrance artwork by Canadian artist Brian Lorimer
    • Free will donation for Wounded Warriors Canada
    • St. James Remembers 100th Anniversary of Canada's One Hundred Days and the First World War Armistice
    • Reception with local dignitaries  2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Legion

  • Military tent – hot chocolate
  • Re-enactors  -   military personnel
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  • Legion Museum – displays
  • Navy display
  • Navy League Cadets 
  • Georgina Museum display
  • Edenvale Air Museum display
  • Edenvale – Miniture Airplanes – childrens ride
  • Edenvale – Spy Camp
  • Army Navy Air Force display
  • Orillia Soldiers Hospital display
  • Canadian Forces Recruiting Display

November 11 - 11:00 a.m.

11:00 a.m. - Ceremony at Cenotaph/Reveille

11:30 a.m. - Parade to Legion

12:30 p.m. - Reception to Legion

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