HONOURING NATIVE VETERANS Parade will assemble at the Shulus Anglican Church at 9:45 a.m. with the parade starting at 10:15 a.m. and finishing at the Shulus Cenotaph located at the Lower Nicola Shulus Roman Catholic Church with the wreath laying ceremony to follow. At 11 a.m. a moment of silence will be observed by those present. Everyone is then invited to the Shulus Community Hall for a luncheon.
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Everyone is then invited to the Legion for an open house and light refreshments. Veterans needing a ride please phone the Legion at 250-378-5631.
Pictures for this supplement were provided by the Nicola Valley Museum and Archives and by family members.
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By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918) Canadian Army In Flanders Fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders Fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders Fields.
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men, one of whom has died of wounds and two are suffering from wounds. Pte. Thos. Charters of Aspen Grove is the one who has made the supreme sacrifice… The date of the death of Pte. Charters is not known here, but his many friends will grieve with the sorrowing relatives.” These words appeared on the cover of the Merritt Herald, on Oct. 27, 1916. The Great War was being waged overseas, and plenty of boys and men from the Nicola Valley shipped out to take part. Many never returned home. For these men, there was no fanfare upon their triumphant return home from the front, no joyful reunion between family members, nor victory parades. These men were offered a different kind of honour — a solemn acknowledgement of their ultimate sacrifice, as their names would live on, permanently inscribed on the cenotaph which now stands in front of the Merritt Civic Centre. But for Thomas Charters, whose body now lies in the Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension in the Somme countryside in France, his “supreme sacrifice” earned him a mention on the front page of the Herald — and little else. Look for Charters’ name on the cenotaph, and you’ll be left searching. Despite dying from his wounds on Oct. 12, as his service records detail, no mention of Charters’ name appears on the war memorial. As the Herald wrote in 1916, his many friends may have joined his sorrowing relatives in grief, but history seems to have forgotten the 28-year-old soldier from the Nicola Valley.
The missing man The life and death of Pvt. Charters has become something of a hangup for Michael Sasges, a retired former editor of the Vancouver Sun. Sasges now owns a home in Merritt, and has previously served as the director of the Nicola 250-378-1841 Valley museum and archives — a posi-
tion which fit in nicely with Sasges’ interest in war history. His hobby of tracking down the histories and service records of the men who served in the Canadian Forces during the Great War eventually led Sasges to stumble upon the records of Charters — which was when he noticed the discrepancy on the Merritt cenotaph. He began pulling as much information as he could on Charters — his service records, the circumstances of his death and mentions of his or his family’s names in census reports — to form a better picture of the man who lived, fought and died on behalf of this nation. Of Charters, he wrote: “Thomas Charters was a Nicola Valley resident all his too few years before he volunteered in 1915. He was a four-year-old member of the third household the 1891 census of Canada enumerator visited in the “Nicola” subdistrict. He was 13 years old on his last birthday when the Pte. Thomas Charters was a cowboy before enlisting in 1901 enumerator visited his mother’s the Canadian army. Photo courtesy of Mary Charters residence in the “Yale West” census reason. She and Thomas’ father, “a subdistrict household. (He had passed 10 full blooded Indian,” did not want to of the previous 12 months in school, the “live on the reservation” and “bought enumerator recorded.) He was 23 years 160 acres near Aspen Grove, and there old on his last birthday in 1911, and in they lived for several years.” Thomas’ the “Nicola” census subdistrict. dad died some time between the 1891 “His mother was a Secwepemc, or enumerator’s visit on 1899. In the latShuswap, woman from the Thompson ter Pauline remarried, and could not countryside. His father was a Syilx, have if Rev. J.M. LeJeune, OMI, who or Okanagan, man from the Douglas officiated, was not convinced she was a Lake countryside. His mother’s name is widow. Pauline’s second husband, Harry Pauline Sisyesq’et. His father’s name is Charters, was the son of one of those 40 elusive. It is long, mostly consonants, and male voters named in the first enumerawas recorded, in the spring of 1891, by tion of Nicola Valley voters, conducted a census taker whose hand is unreadable in 1875 for the provincial government. 115 years later. “The family home was located not “When his mother died in 1911 her so much in Aspen Grove as in its vicindeath was recorded on the front page of ity. Courtney Lake was the location of the Dec. 15, 1911 Merritt Herald, under Pauline’s residence when she married the headline “Pauline the Good gone Harry Charters in 1899. Pauline and over divide.” The “kindness and hospiHarry were residents of Courtenay Lake tality” she extended “many a freighter when the 1901 census-taker visited their and traveller” while in her home in the home. They lived on 320 acres, and Thompson countryside was one reason there were two houses on the property for the prominent play. “She felt no and five outbuildings. The occupied hardship in getting up from her bed in house had three rooms, the enumerathe middle of the night and cooking tor recorded. Pauline’s home would a meal for an weary traveller who was have been a welcome landmark for the hungry and cold and had luckily hit her indigenous freighters who controlled cabin.” the freighting business on the Nicola“Her two marriages were a second Princeton wagon road before the Kettle
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Pte. Charters Valley took that business away. Ranchers, and their cowboys, twice yearly drove their stock through and around the lake, to and from their Crown and private leases south and west of the wagon road.” Barely a year passed between Charters’ enlistment, and his death in the fields of France. The soldier life didn’t come easy to many — and Charters was no different, as his record notes that he was disciplined frequently during his time in England, then France as part of the 54th Battalion. The circumstances of death registry for Charters offers little insight into the events which led to Charters’ death. “Died of wounds in the Field, France,” reads the only marking under a box titled “circumstances of casualty.” Directions to his grave in the WarloyBaillon Communal Cemetery Extension are also given, but a section reserved for next-of-kin is left blank. Looking into Charters’ family’s situation back home in B.C. at the time of his death, Sasges found more evidence to point to why his name would have been omitted from the cenotaph. “More likely, Thomas Charters was barely remembered. He was an Indian cowboy. He grew up in the high country, and lived and worked there before he volunteered. And he was a Catholic. He was easily forgotten or missed or lost “below,” in the industrialized, and British, and Protestant valley bottom. He needed a champion, to enable his public remembrance as people began to raise funds to build the cenotaph they would unveil in the fall of 1921. But he had no family in the valley capable of or inclined to advocate for him at war’s end,” explained Sasges. “His mother and father were dead. His mother’s second husband was enduring his own troubles. One of Harry Charters’ visits to town also ended with a court appearance for drunken behaviour. There was no Indian agent or chief or priest to advocate for him. Thomas Charters never lived on an aboriginal reserve where his circumstances, in life and death, might be known and remembered. And he was never a member of any parish where his circumstances might be remembered. There wasn’t one. There were churches on a number of the reserves, but no resident missionary to pursue his remembrance.”
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Community effort After the conclusion of the First World War on Nov. 11, 1918, the people of the Nicola Valley began to fundraise in order to create a lasting memorial for the locals who lost their lives in the fight. Led by two groups, the Ladies Auxiliary and the Great War Veterans Association, the Nicola Valley War Memorial was officially unveiled on Nov. 6, 1921. The project came with a cost of $12,000 — the entirety of which was raised through public subscription by the Ladies Auxiliary. If the sum isn’t impressive, consider that in 2016, that would be the equivalent of $159,340. The Herald edition of Nov. 11, 1921, described the scene at the unveiling ceremony in front of the provincial court house as “the largest outdoor gathering ever assembled in Merritt.” “The weather was cool, with a keen wind blowing. Nevertheless, the turn out was splendid, bringing with it an atmosphere of patriotism, recalling the romance of the war, rather than the grim and sordid aspect which so many of the veterans present in the parade remembered,” stated the article on the front page. The front page article also lists the names of the 43 men inscribed on the cenotaph — which was the first instance of Charters’ name having been omitted from the list.
What isn’t clear from the archives, is which organization would actually bear the responsibility for upkeep of the cenotaph moving forward. Both groups which organized the construction of the cenotaph — the Great War Veterans Association and the Ladies Auxiliary in Merritt — would eventually come under the fold of the Royal Canadian Legion in 1925. Further complicating the lineage of the ownership of the cenotaph is the fact that it has moved from its original location outside of the provincial court house, to a new spot on City of Merritt property near the Civic Centre. In 2008, after the old courthouse building was bought by a local doctor in town, the cenotaph was moved at the request of the City of Merritt and the Merritt Legion. The struggle to identify which groups are responsible for adding or altering names on a cenotaph is not a problem unique to Merritt. The city of Guelph, Ont. — home to the one of the more famous Canadian veterans, Jon McRae — dealt with a similar issue in 2015, after a local historian began to discover discrepancies and missing names among those listed on the city’s cenotaph. A report from Colleen Clack, general manager of culture, tourism and community initiatives delivered Guelph city council in April 2015, detailed a growing list of mistakes and omissions on the
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Memory survives His name is missing from the cenotaph, but for the family who shares Thomas Charters’ family name, his contribution during the war effort was never
forgotten. “We’ve always known that Tommy signed up and everything. We have a postcard that he sent back from when he was in England — but that was the last one we received from him,” said Mary Charters, who is married to the nephew of Thomas Charters. But while the family had some materials related to Thomas’ time in the war, the extent of Sasges’ research revealed new details previously unknown by Mary and her family. “No one knew where he was buried or anything. They never questioned it, that he died overseas,” said Mary. “Not until we received this bit from Mike Sasges telling us where he was buried overseas.” The final postcard received by the family before Thomas’ death was sent on January 7, 1915. “Dear Auntie, sending you and all a Merry Xmas and a happy New Year. My regiment is liable to be called any- The Merritt Cenotaph now stands in front of the Civic Centre. Cole Wagner/Herald time maybe to France, maybe Egypt, may China, Africa … Please write and Thomas Charters, he’ll tell you that it tell me all the news you can. So bye bye was a matter of correcting the record. dear Auntie, I am your loving boy T. “I’m a lifetime newspaperman — if Charters,” reads an excerpt from the there is a story to tell, I want to tell it,” postcard. he said. Accurate record keeping is a bit of For Mary Charters, there is the a solemn practice for countries which matter of preserving the memory of engage in large-scale warfare. In the Thomas ‘Tommy’ Charters. Though years after the Great War’s conclusion, she tried to learn as much as she could the nation reserved a day — Armistice about Thomas from the elders in the Day — to gather at memorials in citcommunity and the Coldwater band, ies across the country to remember the many of the elders who would have fallen. known the Charters’ family have since Since the conclusion of another passed on. world war, and countless smaller, but And for Pte. Charters, one hundred brutal conflicts around the world, years after his untimely death, maybe a Armistice Day has been renamed chance to receive — finally — the honRemembrance Day to better reflect the our owed to him: his name amongst his need to connect with our past. fellow heroes, to live for all time. If you asked Michael Sasges why it was so important to get the true story on With files from Michael Sasges.
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Without the ease of technology, newspapers were often the only reliable way for locals to get the news from the front. Here are a couple excerpts from wartime dispatches pulled from the archives at the Herald. MIDDLESBORO SOLDIER NURSED BY FORMER MERRITT GIRL IN NORTH AFRICA Jan. 21, 1944 — Corporal Hugh Campbell returned to England on December 23 from Italy and North Africa. He has been under treatment in hospital for malaria and ear trouble and is at present in the 11th Canadian General Hospital in England. On the staff of the The Nicola Valley not only sent its soldiers over- hospital he was in when in North seas to fight, farmers also contributed to the war Africa was Lt. Nursing Sister Cathie effort through increased production of pork and Aitken, formerly of Merritt, “Who cattle. This advertisement congratulating farmers is very good, ineed to our boys.” ran in the Oct. 23, 1942 edition of the Herald.
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NOVEL WHIST DRIVE AT CITY HALL FRIDAY — HOT CROSS BUNS AS ADDED ATTRACTION April 16, 1915 — More money is urgently needed. Needed by the Nciola Valley Patriotic Guild, Merritt Branch. The war, remember, is still going on. The lads are still in the trenches and while there the comforts are still needed. At the Guild meeting on Monday, the treasurers report showed that very little could be done by the willing members until such a time as the treasury had been helped a little.
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of 518 Squadron until 1945, he said the information from this squadron helped determine the date for D-Day — the Allied invasion of France at Normandy, which took place on June, 6 1944. Cokayne said his flights weren’t really dangerous, but the plane was equipped with depth charges in case the crew spotted an enemy submarine along the way. “But we never used them,” he said. Cokayne was born while the world was at war in 1916, and ever since has lived through conflicts like it. “It never ends. It’s just the human race,” he said. The poppy fund raised about $13,000 locally last year, Poppy Chair Mo Dixon told the Herald. The funds raised are used exclusively for veterans and dependents for their ongoing medical issues and needs.
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In honour of the men and women who fought for our freedom.
Remembering Those Who Served
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window display commemorating those who fought for our country! 2037 QUILCHENA AVE.
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Elva & Sam Reid
Eric Munro
Ernie Sing
Fabian LaRochelle
Faye Gay
Frank Archer
Frank Dodding
Fred Dodding
Fred Gay
J.J. Johnston
Fred Geater
Fred McDougall
Gaylord Blankenship
George B. Armstrong
George Hazlehurst
George Hogg
Roberta Mathews Birk
George Hunter
George Kinvig
Gordon Curnow
Gordon Geater
Harold Hunter
Harold Mosley
Harold Newman
Harry J. Winny
Harry Purvis
Austin Williams
Barney Stirling
Herman Earnshaw
Erik Sigurd and Thorald Teit
Bill & Jim Dunnigan
Bill Berkley
Bernard and Frank Dunnigan
Hugh Vicars
Jack Geater
Geofrey Curnow
Reginald Shuttleworth
Bart Dodding
Arthur Monroe Fraser
Brian Dustin
Cacuse Garcia
REMEMBRANCE DAY Honouring sacrifice in war. Educating for peace in the future. On November 11th, remember those who served.
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Royal Canadian Legion
Remembering all those who served from the Nicola Valley
Branch 96 ~ 1940 Quilchena Avenue, Merritt, BC
At work in your Community The Royal Canadian Legion (1926) is Canada’s largest non governmental service organization open to membership for a Canadians, sharing in the commitment of “Remembrance” and strong, united Canada.
The Legion contributes over $3 Million every year supporting community health, social, educational and heritage programs, lling a void in essential community services. •Acts of Remembrance •Spinoza Bears for sick children •UBC Chair of Family Practice •Community medicine in under serviced areas •Special medical equipment
•Geriatric nursing bursaries •Emergency preparedness & response •Support of community food banks •A vast array of community charities
The Legion is the largest single charitable contributor supporting health, housing, independent living and social programs for Veterans and Seniors.
Al Hartwell
Alan Leonard
Albert E. (Dick) Stapleton
•Affordable & assisted living housing •Furnishings & equipment for long term care facilities •Meals-on-Wheels •Medical transportation & hospital visiting
6 returned men L-R: Ken Moyes, Gordon Cameron, Percy Boyd, Maurice Hunter, Billy Drybourgh, Ronnie Laidlaw
•Enabling independent living •Specialized motor coach tours •B.C. Senior Games
Uses for Poppy Donations Money donated during Royal Canadian Legion’s annual Poppy-Remembrance Campaign is placed in Poppy Trust Funds. Some of the many ways this money is used is to improve life for people in your community include:
Alec Cousin Jr.
Alexander Watson Lonie
Allan Eagles
Allan Leonard
Alphonse Garcia
•Providing assistance to needy ex-service members and their dependants. •Supporting medical training and research, and the provision of community medical appliances which will assist in the care of veterans. •Funding the purchase, construction and maintenance of housing and care facilities for elderly and disabled people. •Providing bursaries to children and grandchildren of veterans. •Supporting drop-in centres for seniors and funding meals-on-wheels service.
Andy Garcia
If we do not remember past & present efforts, our soldier’s sacrices become meaningless. The hope for a brighter future around the world starts with remembering past wars & learning from humanity’s mistakes.
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. Annie Lauder
Antoine Moses
Archie Allan
Archie Hardy Sr.
Tom McGrath
Archie McDougal
We are the Dead. Short days ago We li lived, saw sunset glow, W d felt f l dawn, d l Loved, and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders Fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders Fields. Bill Palagain
Bill Voght
Billy McLeod
Henry Castillou
Henry Koller
Henry Ralph Blumenauer
- John McCrae
MERRITT HERALD Ph: 250. 250.378.4241 .37 Fax: 250-378-6808 ww w www.merrittherald.com 2090 Granite Grani nite Ave., A P.O. Box 9, Merritt, B.C. Henry Abel
A message from the
Nicola Tribal Association
The Nicola Tribal Association wants to express on behalf of all Canadians our Pride in this history. History is important, the history about Native veterans and the place they served with honor and distinction, home and abroad in the time of war and in keeping peace. More than 200 Canadian native soldiers were killed or died from wounds during the Second World War. Natives earned a minimum of 18 decorations for bravery in action. They participated in every major battle and campaign. On each occasion our soldiers overcame challenges and made impressive sacrifices and contributions to help our nation restore world peace. In order to fight for our country, our Native Veterans had to give up their Native Status on top of the ultimate sacrifice. May we bring home these historic memories of our ancestors and elders as we honor the Native Veterans today...
These pictures represent just a fraction of our Native Veterans Joseph Coutlee
Mike Bob
Percy Joe
Richard Jackson Sr.
Richard Jackson Jr.
Dave Shuter
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