Local society notes and military bereavement in Manitoba
Mrs B L Patterson spent the week end at Moosomin with Mr and Mrs Orl and Mrs Geo West of Winnipeg visiting her parents in MacGregor. The next Britannia Chapter meeting will be at Miss Viola McIntosh's on Monday March 5 at 8 pm. Ben Quinn and J P MacKinnon are patients at Deer Lodge Military Hospital. Girl Guides will collect magazines on Saturday March 8 leaving them at Mrs A R Stinson's for shipment. The annual Curlers Service is at St Paul’s Church this Sunday at 7 pm. A whist drive and dance by the local IC D Chapter at the Masonic Hall on Friday March 9 with lunch and Hoppy's Orchestra. Sgt A M Shaw of the RCAF Winnipeg is home on furlough and curling in the local bonspiel. Lieut Preston Chant, wounded, is progressing toward convalescent hospital. family asks friends remember him. Mr and Mrs F Ritzer of Emmeline report their son Leading Stoker Ted Ritzer is presumed dead from November 1944. Shawinigan crew lost in the North Atlantic. Community extends sympathy to the family.
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1.C.D
Masonic Hall
Hoppy
G. Chant
Erinview
Lieut
Preston Chant
MacGregor
F. Ritzer
Emmeline
Naval Staff
Ottawa
Stoker
Ted Ritzer
L.S. Ritzer
Shawinigan
Royal Canadian Navy
North Atlantic
Bing Crosby at Tivoli Theatre in MacGregor
We will go to the Tivoli Theatre in MacGregor on March 8, 9 and 10 to hear Bing Crosby in a featured engagement. The event invites audiences to enjoy Crosby’s performance across three nights at the local venue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tivoli Theatre
MacGregor
Bing Crosby
Red Cross Campaign Seeks Funds For Mercy Onward
Red Cross canvassers will visit MacGregor and nearby communities in the next two to three weeks to raise voluntary subscriptions for ongoing relief work. Committee chaired by Mrs J I MacKinnon with Mrs R E Lye as secretary and T L Jolliffe treasurer of the Bank of Montreal. The message stresses wartime relief and the need for $10,000,000 nationally with Manitoba quota of $600,000 to sustain parcels, care for soldiers and war stricken civilians, and urges local support to answer the cause.
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The
Red Cross Society
MacGregor
J. 1. MacKinnon
R. E. Lye
T. L. Jolliffe
Bank of Montreal
Canadian
Red Cross
Canada
Manitoba
Passing of Mr. J B Fox in West Burnaby BC
Obituary notes the death of J B Fox at West Burnaby on January 31 1945 in his 80th year. A former MacGregor district pioneer born in Ireland he farmed in Beaver and Orangeville before moving to Vancouver in 1940. Survived by wife Agnes Moffatt two daughters and four sons sixteen grandchildren one great grandchild a brother Thos Fox and sixteen attendees at the Forest Lawn Cemetery funeral held February 2 1945.
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West Burnaby
J. B. Fox
Mr. Fox
County Wicklow
Ireland
Canada
Muskoka Lakes
Ont
Manitoba
Brandon
Beaver
Agnes Moffatt
Orangeville
MacGregor
Vancouver
B.C. Peterson
Woodside
Man
J. Park
Unity
Sask
Leslie
Roger
Winnipeg
William
Honolulu
George
Thos. Fox
Carberry
Forest Lawn
L. J. Fox
Cecil McCullough and Orville Chant Visit at Edrans
Cecil McCullough and Orville Chant spent the week end at McCulloughs home in Edrans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecil McCullough
Orville Chant
Edrans
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C.w. Lye & Son iv
Austin
Elephant Brand
McLachlan’s
Chrysler Motors Sales and Service
B. L. Patterson
Moosomin
Mrs.Orl
Britannia Chapter
Viola McIntosh
Messrs
Ben Quinn
J. P. MacKinnon
Deer Lodge Military Hospital
Girl Guides
A.R. Stinson
St. Paul's Church
Sgt. A.M. Shaw
R.ca.f
Libby
Harry Horne
S. R. Lamb & Son
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