In the summer of 1944, only a couple months after they’d landed on D-Day, several men from The Queen’s Own Rifles retraced their steps to pay tribute to their fallen comrades. One of the men, Rifleman Hugh Lamb, recorded their experiences in photographs. These men used their valuable leave-time in order to spend time remembering...
The Juno Beach Centre staff in Canada were honoured to be part of the City of Toronto’s annual D-Day Commemoration in Nathan Phillips Square on June 6. Special guests included William O’Hara, Honorary Wren; Janet Watt of the Wren Association of Toronto; keynote speaker Trooper Ed Stafford of the Governor General’s Horse Guards of Canada;...
June 6th, 2016 marks the 72nd anniversary of D-Day and is the perfect occasion to pay tribute to those who served in the Second World War through our Commemorative Brick Program. Visitors are able to sponsor personalized titanium bricks installed on permanent kiosks at the Centre. Over 13,000 bricks have been sponsored by generous donors...
We’re proud to announce the inaugural recipients of the Juno Beach Centre Fellowship program. A big congratulations to Natalie Thiesen of Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia and Tyler Marr of Brock University in St. Catharine’s, Ontario! Natalie will be in residency at the Juno Beach Centre in September 2015 to conduct research on Canadian visitor travel...
The Juno Beach Centre is pleased to welcome the Alumni Association of Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario as the newest addition to our commemorative brick program. The customized brick, complete with the logos of the University and its Alumni Association, displays a phrase that is engraved in the memorial room on campus paying tribute to members of the Queen’s...
Come visit the Juno Beach Centre and the beach this Fall. There are still two months left to follow a guided tour of Juno Park bunkers before the end of the season. With fine fall weather today to boot!
The Juno Beach Centre Association was honoured to be invited to the Dieppe memorial service in Hamilton, Ontario yesterday. In attendance were the last three remaining Dieppe veterans from the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, Jack McFarland, 94, Ken Curry, 93, and Fred Englebrecht, 95. All three men were taken prisoner and held in German POW...
We were thrilled to welcome Judy and Steve McLaughlin to the Juno Beach Centre today. Judy is the daughter of D-Day veteran Arthur Joseph Byway who served on HMCS Algonquin (tribal class destroyer). Her father kept an illustrated diary throughout the war, which the family self-published and presented to the Centre! A great resource to...
