THE BEECHWOOD WAY
BEECHWOOD, THE NATIONAL CEMETERY OF CANADA
Loyalists’ descendants buried at Beechwood
By Dorothy Meyerhof & Sylvia Powers
Sir Guy Carleton Branch,
United Empire Loyalists’ Association
of Canada
T
o honour the 100th Anniversary of
the United Empire Loyalists’ Association of Canada (UELAC), the Sir Guy
Carleton Branch decided to identify some
of the Loyalist descendants buried in
Beechwood, the National Cemetery of
Canada. With the assistance of cemetery
staff, a tour was conducted on 14 September 2014 and an accompanying booklet
was produced, highlighting the descendants of 16 Loyalists with information on
their Loyalist ancestors.
The designation “United Empire Loyalist” was created to honour forever those
who remained loyal to Great Britain during the American Revolution (1776-1783).
The Revolution shattered the British Empire in North America. The conflict was
rooted in British attempts to assert economic control in her American colonies
after her costly victory over the French
during the Seven Years War. When protest
and riots met the British attempts to impose taxes on the colonists, the British
responded with political and military
force. Out of the struggle between the
Thirteen Colonies and their mother country emerged two nations: the United States
and what would later become Canada.
Not all the inhabitants of the Thirteen
Colonies opposed Britain. The United Empire Loyalists were those colonists who
remained faithful to the Crown and wished
to continue living in the New World. The
Loyalists came from every class and walk
of life. Some depended on the Crown for
their livelihood and status, and had consid-
The Beechwood Way
Photo: Bill Reid
During the tour to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United Empire Loyalists' Association
of Canada, forty-five members of the Sir Guy Carleton Branch honoured some of the descendants
of Loyalists by visiting seven grave sites at Beechwood, the National Cemetery of Canada.
erable wealth and property. Many were
farmers and craftsmen. There were clerks
and clergymen, lawyers and labourers,
soldiers and slaves, Native Americans,
college graduates, and people who could
not write their own names. Recent immigrants from Europe also tended to support
the Crown. They had little in common but
their opposition to the revolution. Approximately 70,000 Loyalists fled the
Thirteen Colonies. Of these, roughly
50,000 went to the British North American
Colonies of Quebec and Nova Scotia, the
former of which then included what is now
Ontario, while the latter included land that
later became New Brunswick. It was actually the Loyalists who demanded
the separation of Ontario from Quebec, and New Brunswick from
Nova Scotia.
Of less practical value than land
and supplies, but of more lasting
significance to the Loyalists and
their descendants was the government’s recognition of the stand that
Produced by The Beechwood Cemetery Foundation
they had taken. Realizing the importance
of some type of consideration, on November 9, 1789 Lord Dorchester, the governor
of Quebec, declared “that it was his Wish
to put the mark of Honour upon the Families who had adhered to the Unity of the
Empire.” As a result of Dorchester's statement, the printed militia rolls carried the
following notation:
N.B. Those Loyalists who have
adhered to the Unity of the Empire,
and joined the Royal Standard before
the Treaty of Separation in the
year 1783, and all their Children
and their Descendants by either
sex, are to be distinguished by the
following Capitals, affixed to their
names: U.E. Alluding to their great
principle The Unity of the Empire.
The initials “U.E.” are rarely seen today,
but the influence of the Loyalists on the
evolution of Canada remains. Their ties
(See “Loyalists” on page 2)
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Loyalists (cont’d)
with Britain and their antipathy to the
United States provided the strength needed
to keep Canada independent and distinct in
North America.
As Loyalists and their descendants
poured into British North America their
main focus was on survival: clearing land,
building homes, and growing crops. Then
war broke out again in 1812 with the sons
of Loyalists and their French and Native
allies having to defend the land they
worked so hard to settle.
It was not until 1846 that the earliest
attempt to unite the Loyalist descendants
took place in New Brunswick. In 1884,
centenary celebrations were held in Adolphustown, Toronto, and Niagara. Loyalist
Associations were formed in Quebec in
1895, and in Nova Scotia and Ontario in
1897.
One of the accomplishments of the
United Empire Loyalist Association of
Ontario was printing and publishing 27
volumes of material held by the Bureau of
Archives of Ontario, which contained evi-
Between Friends
By Ian Guthrie
Friends of Beechwood
T
his Thanksgiving weekend we
were saddened to learn of the death of
Thomas Ritchie. Readers of The Beechwood Way will be familiar with Tom’s
informed biographies of notable people
buried at Beechwood. Tom was a great
Friend of Beechwood and a fine person
who could look back on a lifetime of
accomplishments; to attempt an obituary
of him in this space would not be worthy
of such a remarkable person. Preparations have begun to have a suitable memorial to Tom in the next issue of The
Beechwood Way. In the meantime we
extend our sympathy to Tom’s family,
and we hope that our sadness and theirs
will be lightened by our good fortune to
have numerous memories of a fine Canadian.
It has been a remarkably good summer
for the grass, trees and flowers which
enrich Beechwood’s grounds, and are a
tribute to the work of Trevor Davidson
and the outdoor staff. I am no horticulturalist but it seems to me that begonias
had a particularly good year – they grew
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dence of losses and service of the Loyalists. Various branches also organized many
social events such as garden parties, teas,
picnics, excursions and tree planting, and
hosted vice-regal visitors. By 1913 strong
support for a national body came from
across Canada.
On May 27, 1914 an act of Parliament
was passed creating the United Empire
Loyalists’ Association of Canada, to be
controlled under a central body based in
Toronto. Its charter stated the purpose of
the Association was as follows:
 To unite together irrespective of creed
or political party the descendants of
those families who during the American War of 1775 to 1783 sacrificed
their homes in retaining their loyalty to
the British Crown, and to perpetuate
their spirit of loyalty to the Empire;
 To preserve the history and traditions
of that important epoch in Canadian
history by rescuing from oblivion the
history and traditions of the Loyalist
families before it is too late;
 To collect together in a suitable place
the portraits, relics and documents re-
lating to the United Empire Loyalists
which are now scattered throughout the
Dominion; and
 To publish a historical and genealogical journal, or annual transactions.
During the tour to commemorate the
100th Anniversary, the Sir Guy Carleton
Branch honoured some of the descendants
of Loyalists buried in Beechwood Cemetery. Forty-five participants visited seven
grave sites to hear presentations on a cool
day under overcast skies. Some descendants were identified by UELAC members
across Canada; others were found by researching books of Loyalists and linking
likely names to early petitions for land and
to obituaries. Information about the descendants’ lives came from on-line databases, census records, City of Ottawa Directories and newspaper collections at the
City of Ottawa Archives. The grave-side
presentations and the booklet summarized
their accomplishments and those of their
ancestors.
We suspect that many more Loyalist
descendants buried in Beechwood remain
to be discovered.
tall and displayed vivid colours. Can I
declare 2014 a vintage year for begonias? What would Ed Lawrence think!
With frequent rainfall the grass grew
vigorously. I am sure the mowing budget
was exceeded!
I am fond of saying that Beechwood is
a place for the living. This is exemplified by the Ottawa Chamberfest concerts
held during August. Is there anything
more elegant than an accomplished lady
playing the harp to an appreciative and
enthusiastic audience in the Sacred
Space? Another splendid occasion was
the laying up of the colours of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry.
The Hall of Colours has become a most
suitable repository of these cherished
symbols of Canada’s military.
As summer ends I look forward to
Remembrance Day at Beechwood. The
ceremonies have drawn increasing attendance over the years and will have
particular significance this year, the
centenary of the outbreak of The Great
War.
Thank you all for your support and
continued interest in Beechwood as it
grows to become a national place of historical and cultural importance, where
we can remember those who have gone
before us with dignity and honour.
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By Andrew Roy
Director of Operations, Beechwood
A
t this time of year, during the
course of our days here at Beechwood we
are constantly hearing the loud humming of our leaf blowers, moving all the
fallen leaves from our many roads so we
can collect them. The leaves have all
changed colour and what a display they
were. At this point, with the rain we’ve had,
most have already fallen.
Someone said to me the other day: “Why
don’t you leave the leaves on the ground? It
looks quite pretty.” I won’t disagree with
the statement “It looks pretty,” since there
is the pleasant serenity of walking through
the leaves on a sunny fall afternoon, and all
you hear is the crunching of the fallen foliage. However, the other side of the coin is
this: what a mess to clean up in an already
very busy spring! And what about all the
lawn we would have to re-seed because the
fallen leaves have hindered the spring
growth? I think we’ll continue to pick them
up as they fall.
Our Horticultural crew has been busy,
preparing all the gardens for winter and
(See “Report” on opposite page)
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Annie Amelia Chesley: First lady superintendent at St Luke’s hospital
By Jacques Faille
Friends of Beechwood
A
nnie Amelia Chesley was born in 1857
or 1858 in or near Toronto, to Edward James
Chesley and Alpha Mary Turquand. She was
born into a family that had a lengthy association with public service: both her grandfather,
Solomon Yeomans Chesley, and her father
were long-time members of the Indian Department. Nothing is known of Annie’s early
years.
Chesley trained as a nurse between 1893 and
1896 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore,
MD, where she remained as a head nurse until
early 1898. In 1897 several of Ottawa’s leading citizens, including Dr Henry Pulteney
Wright and lumber magnates J.R. Booth and
John Manuel, founded St Luke’s Hospital
along with an associated training-school for
nurses. Although financially sustained by the
Presbyterian Church, it received the full support of Ottawa’s elite. Sir Wilfrid Laurier laid
its cornerstone and Governor General Lord
Aberdeen and Lady Aberdeen led the opening
ceremonies in July 1898.
Chesley was named lady superintendent, and
her role was a dual one: first, she administrated
the 30-bed institution, which included supervising health and dietary care. In the earlier
Photo: William Topley/Library and Archives Canada/PA-201111
Miss M.E. Kearns, a nurse in Ottawa in 1903,
may well have been one of Chesley’s students
or contemporaries.
Report (cont’d)
will, in the next few weeks be planting
some 30,000 tulip bulbs, in preparation for
Beechwood’s extraordinary annual display
of tulips for the spring of 2015.
Our Operations crew, along with providAutumn 2014
Photo: City of Ottawa Archives / CA-001482
Ottawa's first Protestant general hospital served the city from 1898 until it was replaced by the newer
and larger Ottawa Civic Hospital on Carling Avenue around 1920. In building the new hospital, the city
acquired the redundant St Luke's. Ottawa retained the property, and it briefly served as a relief housing during the Depression. After that it was demolished as a make-work project and the property was
converted to a city park. The large house at 177 Frank Street was originally the nurses' residence, and
the name lives on in St Luke's Park.
years she was required personally to order the
food and medical supplies and oversee the
dietary kitchen. Second, Chesley set and administered the curriculum for the three-year
training programme for nurses. In the school’s
first three years, Chesley received 300 applications for admission and from these she selected
30; the initial class of seven graduated in 1901.
Although the nurses’ regimen emphasized a
scientific approach, St Luke’s blended this
aspect of their training with traditional forms of
health care. It was thus regarded as a “family
hospital.”
The formal course of study included lectures
during the day from Chesley and her four assistants and from local doctors in the evening.
The “continuous course of practical demonstrations” involved hourly examinations of
patients’ vital statistics and the keeping of detailed records. Students also were responsible
for the more practical aspects of the study of
nursing, and were responsible for much of the
cleaning and upkeep of the facility. The student nurses also performed practical work for
periods of a few months in other local hospitals.
Regarding her position as one of senior management, Chesley stressed the separation of her
administrative team from the group of student
nurses. Thus, while she yearly awarded a personal medal to her most outstanding pupil,
there is little evidence of a less formal, or
warm, relationship between Chesley and the
students.
In addition to her responsibilities at St Luke’s,
Annie Chesley was active in the wider nursing
profession. She served as first president of the
Ottawa Graduate Nurses’ Association. With
several nursing associates, she established the
first central registry for professional nurses in
Ottawa; it probably attempted to identify certified nurses in the area and perhaps suggest
appropriate names to private households in
need of nursing care. A long illness necessitated Chesley’s retirement in 1910. She died
less than eight months later in the hospital that
had become her home. She is buried at Beechwood, Section 26, Lot 9 SW.
ing the day to day services, will be starting
a new project shortly: the development of
several features and pathways for the Ottawa Police Services Memorial Cemetery
section, which is located beside the RCMP
National Memorial Cemetery (celebrating
its 10th anniversary this year).
We are very proud that organizations
such as the aforementioned have chosen
Beechwood to care for those that have
served our country, province, city and community. We are also proud to have been
able to serve and care for Ottawa’s community as a whole, for the past 140 years.
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Set in Stone: The Royal Canadian Air Force’s leaders during WWII
By the late Thomas Ritchie
Friends of Beechwood
I
n the First World War (1914-1918),
22,000 Canadians became military aviators. Since Canada had no air force, they
did so by joining Britain’s Royal Flying
Corps, its Royal Naval Air Service
(RNAS), and, later, its Royal Air Force
(RAF). Many of them became skilled airmen and were decorated for their accomplishments, but more than 1,500 of them
were war casualties.
In 1920 when the government appointed
an Air Board to govern Canadian aviation,
one of its first actions was to establish a
Canadian air force. Consisting of more
than five thousand officers and airmen,
selected mainly from WWI air force veterans, the Canadian Air Force (CAF) trained
at Camp Borden. At a few other airports its
duties included communications and transportation for the federal and provincial
governments, surveys, photography, and
patrolling the border to prevent smuggling.
In 1924 the CAF became the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), and it remained a
small force until the outbreak of WWII
when it expanded greatly, becoming one of
the Allies’ largest wartime air forces, with
70 squadrons of aircraft.
Many of the RCAF’s WWII leaders were
WWI veterans, such as Harold Edwards,
who joined the Royal Canadian Navy in
1914 but changed to the Royal Naval Air
Service in 1915 and became a bomber pilot. His aircraft was shot down in France in
1917 and he became a prisoner of war, but
afterwards flew with the RAF. In 1920 he
joined the Canadian Air Force and in the
RCAF rose in rank to Air Marshal. In
WWII he was largely responsible for the
RCAF’s expansion, requiring the training
of thousands of pilots, navigators and other
aircrew members, which the Commonwealth Air Training Plan provided. It
brought prospective aircrews to Canada
from Commonwealth countries and produced more than 131,000 trained aviators,
half of them Canadians. Air Marshal Edwards died in 1952, and his grave is in the
National Military Cemetery’s Section 103.
Another WWI pilot like Edwards, Lloyd
S. Breadner also joined the RNAS in
1915, and a year later was a fighter pilot in
France. He became a decorated squadron
commander and after WWI he joined the
CAF. In the RCAF he rose in rank to Air
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Photo: Gov’t of Canada, Department of National Defence collection / Library and Archives Canada / e005176198
Aircrew of No. 433 (Porcupine) Squadron, RCAF, at Skipton-on-Swale, England, en route to their
Handley Page Halifax B.III aircraft before taking off to raid Hagen Germany, December 2, 1944.
Photo: Nicholas Murant. DND. National Archives of Canada, PA-114767
A cat on patrol on the Dorval tarmac; in the background Liberators and Hudsons are lined up.
Cats were used to destroy rodents that could damage the canvas-covered airframes.
Chief Marshal and in WWII was a senior
director of RCAF operations. He retired in
1946, died in 1952 and was buried in
Beechwood’s Section 17A.
A third Canadian to join the RNAS in
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1915, Walter Robert Kenny, was born in
Ottawa in 1885. He was trained as a pilot
in the USA, and for his WWI service was
awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross by
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dition by flight to Labrador and a year later
he joined the CAF. Early in WWII, Kenny
was Canada’s Air Attaché in the USA. An
RCAF Air Vice Marshal, Walter Kenny
died in 1944 and was buried in Beechwood’s Section 52.
The first RCAF squadron to serve abroad
in WWII was sent to England in February
of 1940 with its single-engine Lysander
aircraft to assist in the operations of the
Canadian army. Its Commanding Officer,
Group Captain Wilbur Van Vliet, an early
member of the RCAF, returned to Canada
and died in 1942. His grave is in Beechwood’s Section 29.
The first of fifteen RCAF bomber squadrons in England was formed in 1941 from
RCAF aircrew serving with RAF squadrons. The original squadron remained in
Bomber Command’s Pathfinder Group and
the other fourteen became the RCAF
Bomber Command Group in 1943. One of
the commanders of the first bomber squadron, J.E. Fauquier (a former Canadian
bush pilot), took command of the squadron
in 1941 and led it on many raids. He often
served as a Master Bomber, circling a target and broadcasting instructions to the
bombers, and was one of the Master
Bombers on the famous 1943 attack on the
German rocket development centre at
Peenemunde, delaying Germany’s use of
rocket weapons for a year. His skill, leadership and determination made Air Commodore Fauquier one of WWII’s most
highly decorated airmen. He died in 1981
and his grave is in Beechwood’s Section
51.
Air Commodore N.W. Timmerman,
another Canadian pilot in Bomber Command, joined the Royal Air Force in 1936
where he took part in 50 bombing raids
with a RAF squadron. He was appointed
commanding officer of the second RCAF
Bomber Command squadron, formed in
1941. He later became a senior member of
the staff of Bomber Command’s RCAF
Group. Air Commodore Timmerman died
in 2001 and was buried in the National
Military Cemetery’s Section 103.
Air Vice Marshal Henry Myles Carscallen graduated from the Royal Military
College in 1930 and from Queen’s University in 1932, and joined the RCAF a year
later. Early in WWII he was an RCAF
squadron commander in Canada, and in
1942 he served with the US Air Force
Bomber Command in the Pacific. After
WWII ended, Carscallen was Canada’s Air
Attaché in the USA, after which he was
placed in charge of the RCAF’s Air TransAutumn 2014
Photo: Gov’t of Canada, Department of National Defence collection / Library and Archives Canada / e005176190
Aircrew and groundcrew of the No. 428 (Ghost) Squadron, RCAF, with an Avro Lancaster aircraft,
which flew the squadron's 2,000th sortie, a raid on Bremen, Germany.
port Command and the RCAF’s Training
Command. AVM Henry Myles Carscallen
was awarded the Distinguished Flying
Cross for his WWII service and on his
death, in 1986, he was buried in Beechwood’s Section 60.
Another pilot who became an RCAF
leader, Ralph E. McBurney, joined the
RCAF in 1924 and two years later was
awarded his pilot’s wings. An electrical
engineering graduate of the University of
Saskatchewan, he became the RCAF’s
Director of Signals and in WWII was involved in the RCAF’s development of radar. The commander of RCAF Station
Trenton in 1943, McBurney was then sent
to England where he was commander of
several RCAF bomber squadrons and a
senior officer of the RCAF’s Group of
Bomber Command. After the war McBurney was placed in command of the
RCAF’s Air Material Command with the
rank of Air Vice Marshal. After retiring in
1952 he worked in industry for several
years, then for the National Research
Council of Canada, retiring again in 1972.
AVM McBurney’s grave is in Beechwood’s Section 64.
Fighter pilot William Ross MacBrien,
born in 1913, graduated from the Royal
Military College in 1935 and joined the
RCAF. When WWII started, he was the
RCAF’s chief flying instructor and, in
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1942, was appointed the commanding officer of a Canadian fighter station in England. He modified its Spitfires to become
tactical weapons against ground targets
such as tanks, trains, and artillery, and on
D-Day he flew with RCAF squadrons on
patrols over the landing area. Later he became the commander of a Canadian fighter
section based on the continent, and in 1944
was awarded the Order of the British Empire. In the 1950s MacBrien served as chief
of staff of the Allied Tactical Air Force in
Europe and later was a deputy commander
of NORAD, controlling the air forces in
defence of North America. Air Vice Marshal MacBrien’s grave is in Beechwood’s
Section 63.
A final WWII RCAF fighter pilot, Keith
Louis Hodson, was commander of the
RCAF’s wing of Fighter Command in
England and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and Bar for his service. He remained in the RCAF after
WWII and was appointed to a command
position with NORAD, but while on a
training flight with a US Air Force pilot in
Colorado in 1960, their jet fighter lost
power and both parachuted safely from it.
Unfortunately, while trying to land in gusty
winds Air Vice Marshal Hodson was entangled in his parachute’s cords and fatally
injured. His grave is in the National Military Cemetery’s Section 27.
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Our readers’ letters
Jacques: you and your team deserve a
medal for what you continue to produce
edition after edition with The Beechwood
Way. What a joy it is to read them and to
learn more and more about Beechwood
Cemetery. Thanks to each one of you for
the excellence of the product which you
manage to produce. Each edition is a treasure.
Grete Hale, Ottawa ON
After reading the Summer 2014 issue of
The Beechwood Way, I became concerned
about the open expanse areas described as
undeveloped land in the “Between Friends”
column. Just because there are no headstones erected does not mean there are no
burials there. What entered my mind was
the children’s area. It too, is close to the St.
Laurent Blvd entrance and looks like it is a
large empty area, but actually there are lots
of kids buried there from a long time ago
(1800s). [Editor’s note – here at Beechwood our records are very complete and
list and locate every burial which has
ever taken place in the cemetery. We will
never disturb existing graves, even those
without markers.]
The same scenario may be occurring in a
cemetery in rural Ottawa. It is recorded in
at least one history book, and was common
knowledge back in the 1800s that there
were no headstones erected to mark the
burial locations of some of the County’s
poorest people, and those of denominations
other than Anglican, at the edge of the
cemetery. Today, the area is graveled over
and a construction company has settled
construction trailers and equipment over the
site. More research has to be done to con-
firm the facts, but in the meantime this is
just a reminder that innocent mistakes like
this can happen when there are no markers.
I trust Beechwood’s records, I really
do. However I know too well how records
get destroyed in fire or become lost over
the years, but I am glad Beechwood’s records are still intact.
Karen Prytula, Kanata ON
I enjoyed the Ella and Erskine Bronson
article by Thomas Ritchie & Jacques Faille,
Vol. 9, Issue 34, in The Beechwood Way.
The article mentions that Erskine Bronson was a Minister without Portfolio in
Ontario Premier A. S. Hardy’s cabinet until
1898. The ‘A. S.’ stands for, Arthur Sturgis, and probably not many people have
heard of him but there is an Ottawa connection. Although Premier Arthur Sturgis
Hardy is interred in the Mount Pleasant
cemetery outside Brantford, Ontario, complete with the Province of Ontario flag, his
descendants were, at one time, prominent in
the Ottawa/Brockville area.
The Premier’s son, the late Senator Arthur Charles Hardy, was for a brief time,
Speaker of the Senate, with portrait hanging
outside the Senate Chamber. The Hardy
Arcade, linking the Sparks Street Mall and
Queen Street in Ottawa is named after him.
Senator Hardy’s son, also named, Arthur
Sturgis, is interred at Beechwood. The Canadian composer, the late, Hagood Hardy,
was also related to the Ontario Premier.
While Arthur Sturgis Hardy was Premier,
an effort was made to name a prominent
provincial park after him. Hardy resisted
and thanks to him, the park was named,
Algonquin Park.
Bob Short, Ottawa ON
By the ‘Way’…Facts from the Company Minutes
By Mark Sunderland
Friends of Beechwood
B
y the way, the author of this column
has received a communication from the editorial department of TBW that our space for
this current issue has been preempted by an
excessive volume of topical information.
Minutes of the fall 1925 board meeting
therefore will not be revealed until the Winter issue in February 2015.
Since we are already ninety years behind
and, having glanced over the minutes from
the fall of 1925, we decided that there was
nothing in them that was immediately pressing for your attention, although: a communication was received from Judge McKinley
thanking the Board for their assistance given
in the case of Arnold Ferguson. Details of
the case are yet to unfold. In the event that
they do, they will, in the fullness of time, be
reported to you.
We thank you for your patience.
The Beechwood Cemetery Foundation Board of Directors
Grete Hale, Chair; General (ret’d) Maurice Baril; Carol Beal; RCMP A/Commr. (ret’d) Ghyslaine Clément;
Stephen Gallagher; Cathy Gray; Ian Guthrie; RCMP D/Commr. (ret’d) Tim Killam; Brigadier General (ret’d)
Gerald E. Peddle; Dr. J. David Roger; David Wallace; Richard Wagner; Robert White
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Upcoming special events
Remembrance Day
National Military Cemetery
Tuesday, November 11, 10:30am
Lecture : The National Military Cemetery
Beechwood National Memorial Centre
Sunday, November 23, 1:30pm
Wreaths Across Canada
National Military Cemetery
Sunday, December 7, 1:30pm
Christmas Candlelight Service
Beechwood National Memorial Centre
Sunday, December 14, 6:00pm
Published quarterly by the
Executive Director: Roger Boult
Editor: Jacques Faille
Design editor: Nicole Bedard
French translation: Jean-Luc Malherbe
Contributing writers: Dorothy Meyerhof & Sylvia
Powers, Ian Guthrie, Andrew Roy, Thomas
Ritchie, Jacques Faille and Mark Sunderland
ISSN 2368-545X, 2368-5468
THE BEECHWOOD WAY newsletter is a free,
independent publication and, unless otherwise
clearly stated, its articles imply no endorsement of
any product or service.
The Beechwood Cemetery Foundation is a
registered Canadian charity, and will issue an
income tax receipt for donations of $20 or more.
Registration number 88811 2018 RR0001.
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