National Indigenous Veterans day

Today (Friday, November 8th, 2024) is National Indigenous Veterans day. Members of the Mohawk Legion Branch 219 are at the Services Complex again today from 9-3 selling Poppies. A march and ceremony will be held tomorrow. Ray Deere is President of the Legion. This year’s focus on the women from the community who served:

“A strong tradition, a strong military history, you’ve got to remember that we always had a warrior society that protected Turtle Island and our communities, our territories. It had a lot to do with our women, our Clan Mothers telling us what we needed to do, they gave us the permission to protect our territories, it wasn’t the men that sat around and said: ‘hey, it’s a macho thing, let’s do this,’ no, the women had to give us permission so we carried that on.” 

Tomorrow a community breakfast begins at 8 am at the Legion. At 10 they are off to the cemetery. At 1 pm Parade, headed by the Blackwatch, makes its way to the Cenotaph. A pair of CF-18 fighter jets are scheduled to perform a fly-pass over the Percival-Molson Stadium in Montreal Saturday afternoon to mark the start of the East Division finals of the Canadian Football League 2024 season according to the CAF. The game, scheduled to begin at 3 p.m., will pit the Montreal Alouettes (12-5-1) against the Toronto Argonauts (10-8-0). Military authorities note that a fly-pass is dependent upon weather and flying conditions.