The Society of the Officers of the Honourable Guard connected with hundreds of folks on Canada Day.
Some of the mandates of the New West-based society are to participate in civic gatherings and parades and to promote British Columbia and Canadian history.
“The Guard had a display next to the Fraser River Discovery Centre and met hundreds of local people, including a large number of new Canadians, all eager to learn about our country,” said society member Rob Rathbun in an email to the Record. “We had a large display on our Queens Jubilee, and children and quite a few adults coloured jubilee crests that we made into buttons for them as mementos.”
Other components of the Society of the Officers of the Honourable Guard’s mandate include: educating people on the role of the Crown and the Vice Regal/ Lieutenant Governor; promoting awareness of veterans and recognition of their sacrifices; training to provide aid to civil authorities in time of emergency and assist in providing emergency social services in time of disaster; and delivering educational programming to youth in schools and to the community and instructing on bagpipes, drumming music and highland dancing.
Locally, the society has held several events through the years in which it’s invited students and community members to help clean up the graves and headstones of veterans and soldiers buried in the military section of Fraser Cemetery.
