Parksville’s Veterans Remembrance Program

September 29, 2023

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Commemorative banners to honour the local veterans who lost their lives in World War I and World War II will be displayed along the Island Highway and the Alberni Highway from October 4 to November 27. Approved by Parksville Council in 2020, this annual program honours the veterans whose names are listed on the Parksville Cenotaph.

We appreciate the many residents who shared personal stories and valuable information about family members, not otherwise obtainable through archives or museums. We encourage you to read the many heartwarming, yet tragic stories of the World War I and World War II veterans featured on Let's Talk Parksville. The details were gathered through extensive research over the past few years. As you will read in the stories, many of the local young men who enlisted, especially in World War I, were recent arrivals from such places as the United Kingdom and Australia and were too young to have started families, adding to the challenge to find photographs and details.

Our search for the missing information continues and our website identifies those veterans; if you can help, please contact Deb Tardiff, communications@parksville.ca(External link).

For more information:
Deb Tardiff, Manager of Communications
communications@parksville.ca;(External link) 250 954-3073