The next BC Genealogical Society’s general meeting will be Wednesday, November 8, 2017, 7:30 pm at the Danish Lutheran Church in Burnaby, Downstairs Hall, 6010 Kincaid St., Burnaby, BC.
The new BCGS 2018 Calendars will be available for sale at the meeting.
Remembrance is the theme for this meeting.
Chris Dumfries will be our speaker – his topic, World War I and II cemeteries.
Click for Directions and Map (printable)
All interested are very welcome to attend.
See Canada’s Books of Remembrance on-line at Veterans Affairs Canada
The photograph above shows the Rt. Hon. W.L. Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada, examining the Book of Remembrance at the (then) Public Archives of Canada, 5th November, 1942. With the Prime Minister were Colonel A.F. Duguid, Dr. Gustave Lanctot, Colonel J.W. Flanagan, Colonel Osborne, and Miss Sylvia Bury. Photographer unknown; courtesy Library and Archives Canada: PA-051570.