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n a chilly November morning, Jean L. works on crafting a clay bowl inside Toronto’s Inspirations Studio.

Several sit in front of her work station, each taking roughly three weeks to complete, she said.

Jean, who didn’t want her last name published, said she’s been coming to Inspirations, located near Bloor and Dundas streets in the city’s West Bend neighbourhood, for a long time.

But that may not be the case by the year’s end because Inspirations faces a funding shortage that could close its doors.

"This is my little place I come to work," she told The Bloor West Villager. "I hope it never closes."

For 23 years, the ceramicsbased program has supported low-income women who have been impacted by poverty, homelessness, addiction, trauma and mental health issues.

Today, close to 30 women go to the studio to learn how to craft goods and develop business skills so they can earn additional income.

It has been a project of Sistering, a women’s organization and drop-in centre, since 2001.

"A lot of women find that it’s a non-medical way of dealing with their addiction," said Sistering’s Theresa Morin, the studio’s co-ordinator. "Others find that the more they’re involved in meaningful and healthier activities, the better off they feel and the better off they are."

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Gudru Olafsdottir, studio facilitator, works on a pottery wheel at Inspirations Studio Wednesday, Nov. 1.

Inspirations Studio is facing imminent closure if it is unable to find a new partner agency and funder.

Inspirations Studio looking for new partner and funder Toronto and York Region’s Toronto Enterprise Fund, but lost its status as a social en-

terprise a few years ago because it wasn’t meeting the goal of becoming self-sustain-

able, said Ruth Crammond, director of programs, grants and capacity building at Unit-

ed Way, in an statement to The Villager.

She added the United Way has provided funds to help Inspirations operate until March 2018 so it can develop a future plan, but the money won’t last till then, said Patricia O’Connell, Sistering’s executive director.

"It doesn’t cover the cost of running the program," she added.

The studio has been collecting funds through a crowdfunding campaign and other revenue streams since October so it can stay afloat to provide its services until it can find a new funder and partner.

The campaign has a $60,000 goal, which will help them operate into the new year, Morin said.

"We take 20 per cent (of in-house sales)..." she said.

"It’s not a great business model, but it means they can make minimum wage and that’s what we want."

Morin added any organization that works with individuals with mental health and homelessness issues would be an ideal partner.

"That’s who we work with," she said. "That’s who we want to work with, and within that there are challenges."

Gudrun Olafsdottir, Inspirations’ studio facilitator, said losing the space would be "traumatizing" for the women.

"I think it’s important because it’s a program that’s focused on a skill," she said.

"People are learning to do something that’s difficult to do and that sort of gives you a lot of self-confidence."

For more information, visit www.inspirationsstudio.org or email inspirations@sistering.org.

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Spirit Songs: The Music of Leonard Cohen WHEN: 8:00 p.m - 10:00 p.m WHERE: Redeemer Lutheran Church, 1691 Bloor Street West, Toronto CONTACT: John Paul Kleiner, 647-535-8166, jpkleiner@hotmail.com, http://www.re-

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Theatre’s opening part of province’s plan to revitalize park AARON D’ANDREA adandrea@metroland.com Movie showings at Ontario Place’s Cinesphere theatre are a reality once again.

The Ontario government reopened it on Nov. 2. as part of its ongoing revitalization of the park that was partially closed in 2012.

Roughly $900,000 in renovations were made to the Toronto theatre to allow it to be open year-round and offer a variety of films, said Eleanor McMahon, minister of tourism, culture and sport.

"When people come into this place, it’s a very nostalgic feeling," she said of the 46-year-old building.

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Place ... more inviting, more welcoming, more appealing and were rolling out the red carpet and saying to people, ’Come on down.’"

Holding 614 people for regular screenings, it’s the world’s first permanent Imax theatre and now has a new curved screen, lighting, sound system, lobby, washrooms, seats, carpeting and more.

It’s the second phase in the park’s revitalization.

In June on the park’s eastern side, the province unveiled a new $30-million, 7.5-acre Trillium Park and the new 1.3-km William G. Davis Trail, named after Bill Davis, who was premier when it first opened in 1971.

The next phase involves the development of the west island into a hub for culture, discovery and innovation, the province said in a news release.

The government is currently reviewing applications for the site.

temporary basis and used that time to really think about what we wanted to do next," McMahon said. "It was becoming an underperforming asset."

McMahon added the revitalization is a worthwhile investment.

"We’re investing funds in Ontario Place because we know that this is what people want," she said. "It’s the largest city in the country and it’s 85 acres of prime real estate ... we’re attracting people from all over the world and when you have an asset of this magnitude, you want to get it right and you want to invest appropriately."

Ryan said he hopes people will come and visit Ontario Place.

"We really are welcoming people back to the space to use it," he said.

"We want people to use this space as they would their own backyard and park."

For more information, visit www.ontarioplace.com.

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The renovated Ontario Place Cinesphere officially reopened on Thursday, Nov. 2, with a screening of Christopher Nolan’s film, ’Dunkirk’, and the facility’s original feature ’North of Superior’.

Also, a series of events are planned for the heritage site, said Matt Ryan, an Ontario Place spokesperson.

"All these people who live in Liberty Village, Roncesvalles, CityPlace, now they have this theatre in their backyard," he said.

"We’re all taxpayers, right?

We’re all part of Ontario Place, so this is all of our theatre."

Walter Kehm, of downtown’s Bathurst Quay neighbourhood, came to the theatre in the 70s and returned for the opening to watch Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk.

"It’s really wonderful,"

he said of theatre. "There are a lot of people living around here now ... it’s very convenient."

Back in 2012, the province closed majority of the park due to low admissions.

"The government at the time, rather than keep it open, closed it on sort of a

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EDITORIAL | OPINION

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Canada’s soldiers continue to pay the price Jeff Sandney, a master warrant officer who works at Denison Armoury in Downsview, calms his dog down when the garbage truck rumbles by.

As he relates in a story by one of our reporters, the golden retriever more than returns the favour: calming Sandney down when he is stricken with anxiety.

Now 52, Sandney joined the Canadian Armed Forces at 17, and served in Bosnia, Cyprus, Egypt and the Golan Heights. In Sarajevo, Bosnia he recalled "seeing people shot all the time".

"Now I get high anxiety out of the blue. You just start sweating, and you don’t like to be around people or crowds," he told our reporter.

His story, on the heels of the inspirational Invictus Games hosted in Toronto this past summer, reminds us of the price still being paid by our soldiers.

His story is a part of our extensive coverage that can be found on our www.insidetoronto.com website and in our eight Toronto print editions this Thursday, leading up to Remembrance Day this Saturday.

Other stories delve into the Royal Canadian Legion’s only Jewish branch in Ontario; an East York Legion branch that is recognizing our soldiers who have taken their own lives; an east-end woman, now 99, who was on one of the first ships of nurses in the days following D-Day; one Toronto high school – Central Tech – that has been indelibly shaped by wartime service; and the dilemma of dwindling membership faced by many Legion branches.

Another of our reporters attended a Toronto District School Board school in Etobicoke where about 50 students in an adult class – many of them immigrants – gathered to hear an active member of the Canadian Armed Forces. An immigrant from Pakistan, himself, Capt. Adeel Zafar, explained that some soldiers are still paying the ultimate price. The emotion rose in his voice as he remembered one Canadian soldier, a young man in his 20s, killed in Afghanistan.

Zafar acted as liaison officer, and escorted the soldier’s body 200 kilometres along the Highway of Heroes from CFB Trenton to the Ontario coroner’s office in downtown Toronto.

"There was not a single kilometre not filled with Canadians. Every overpass, every bridge, people were waving, saluting, holding banners and Canadian flags," Zafar told the assembled, including our reporter.

"A girl about six or seven was holding a placard that said, ’thank you, Larry.’ Tears started coming down. For 10 minutes, I couldn’t see. That’s how emotional I was."

That was the day, Zafar said, "it became real" to him what he and Canadian Forces members do.

Canadians should hopefully often think about, and be thankful for, the sacrifice of our men and women in service – and Nov. 11 remains an essential commemoration of that remembrance.

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Time to stop appointing caretakers It is time to end the practice of appointing caretaker councillors to public offices left vacant between elections.

Last week’s decision by Toronto council to appoint former parks bureaucrat Lucy Troisi to fill in the seat that Pam McConnell held before her death is maybe a stark example: councillors voted against a candidate who had significant endorsements from community leaders, a nod from the late councillor’s family, and instead supported one whose main endorsement came from two councillors in Scarborough.

It’s not to say that Troisi’s a bad choice for councillor, but she’s not the community’s choice, and Toronto council showed it-

DAVID NICKLE The City self in majority to not be terribly interested in matching the community’s choice. In the past, council has been better at it. When Scarborough East Coun.

Ron Moeser passed away earlier this year, they chose another former bureaucrat, Jim Hart, who’d also worked with Moeser and so would mirror his style.

But council could have

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picked David Soknacki, the former budget chief under Mayor David Miller. A good choice, but hardly a carbon copy of the late Moeser in style and politics.

And who knows how good a choice Hart or anyone is to represent a ward?

In an appointment, the people are notably silent.

That’s why it might make sense to look at ending the practice of appointing politicians to office, period. Currently, council has the choice of a byelection or an appointment. Generally, earlier in a term council will hold a byelection and later it will appoint. But provincial law only requires an appointment if a vacancy occurs after March 31 of an election year.

This is a process unique

to municipalities. At the federal and provincial levels of government, a vacancy must be filled by a byelection.

There is no provision for appointments and if a seat is vacated close to a general election then it sits vacant.

The same holds true provincially.

That’s a good system to emulate.

Constituents shouldn’t have to rely on their elected representative’s political opponents to provide them with fair representation, in Toronto or anywhere.

David Nickle is a reporter and columnist covering Toronto City Hall for Metroland Media Toronto. He can be reached at dnickle@insidetoronto.com. Follow him on Twitter at @davidnickle

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Toronto police investigate arson on Armadale Avenue Little Free Library set ablaze early Saturday morning CYNTHIA REASON creason@insidetoronto.com Armadale Avenue residents Vicki and Martin Fox received a rude awakening early Saturday morning - 10-foot flames shooting from their Little Free Library.

"We woke up at 2:30 a.m. to someone knocking on our door," said Vicki, who is pregnant. "It was a guy on his way home and he said, ’Your library is on fire, you might want to put it out.’"

While Martin rushed out with a bucket of water and hose in hand to douse the flames alongside a few helpful neighbours, Vicki called 911 to report that the couple’s small wooden "take a book, return a book" exchange box had been set ablaze. "(The library) was full of books and it really took off," she said. "We were really worried because it’s right next to our shed, so the shed could have gone up, and it’s all connected to our house."

Const. Craig Brister said Toronto Police received the call reporting the fire on Armadale Avenue near South Kingsway at 2:51 a.m.

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Meanwhile, the Foxes, who received the Little

Free Library as a Christmas gift last year from their parents, said they were saddened by its destruction, along with the 20 to 30 books that were torched along with it.

"It was great because it was full all the time, it was self-sufficient and people loved it in the neighbourhood," Vicki said, noting that she and her husband just moved to Toronto from England in January.

"We were shocked because the neighbourhood is just so friendly and quiet and nothing ever happens here. So, we were a little sad but, you know, I guess these things happen sometimes."

Brister said the police investigation is continuing.

Off-leash dog area on way?

City of Toronto staff will host a public meeting on Nov. 15 regarding a proposed dog off-leash area in Dufferin Grove Park.

According to a meeting invitation, staff are hosting the meeting to introduce the project, present its draft concept plan, receive comments and input from members of the public, identify community perspectives, preferences and priorities and to discuss next steps.

Local Coun. Ana Bailao (Ward 18 Davenport) will be in attendance. Anyone is welcome to attend. The meeting will be held at St. Mary Catholic Academy at 66 Dufferin Park Ave., near Bloor and Dufferin streets, from 6:30 to 8 p.m.

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Affordable Mimico opportunity on a quiet one-way street. Charming well-kept detached bungalow, close to the Waterfront, public transit, parks, schools and Mimico GO for easy access to downtown. Main level opens into a large sun-filled kitchen with an inviting breakfast bar, living room features vintage stained glass windows, and dining room has decorative moulding. The finished basement has a separate entrance, offering many options. House is perfect to enjoy as is and update over time.

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Beautiful renovated 5 bedroom, 6 bathroom Kingsway family home with 3 storey quality addition & lovely curb appeal. Just minutes from subway & shops on Bloor. The heart of this home is the fabulous open concept kitchen/family room for entertaining & daily life. Walk out to pretty private deck and garden. Large master with ensuite, 2nd bedroom with ensuite too! Fantastic lower level for kids with heated floor. $2,449,000

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Simpson helps with St. Joe’s Toronto West Halloween Fest For the sixth year, Christine Simpson has sponsored St. Joseph’s annual Toronto West Halloween Fest.

The event, spanning from Runnymede to Windermere, featured entertainment, treats and fun activities for families. Proceeds from the event will help revitalize spaces in St. Joseph’s Health Centre, including the Emergency Room.

Christine, a local Realtor, is passionate about supporting the hospital. “Everyone should donate to local hospitals,� she says. “One day, they’ll need it or their friends and family will need it.�

Christine has lived and worked in Toronto’s west end for almost 30 years and says everyone she knows has visited St. Joe’s at one point in their lives. “We’re so privileged to have this facility,� she says.“We need to make sure we keep it up-to-date.�

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Visit www.christinesimpson.com for more information, drop by the Royal LePage office at 3031 Bloor St. W., or call 416-236-1871.

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Spacious, well maintained 5 level sidesplit on premium pie-shaped park-like lot.

Family size eat-in kitchen with breakfast bar, family room, master suite with ensuite, 2 fireplaces, hardwood. Spacious open layout. Large windows. Multiple walk-outs to back gardens on three levels.

This home is full of light. Finished lower level with rec room, wet bar and walk-out.

Excellent schools, community. $1,095,000

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Remembrance Day ceremonies happening near you On Nov. 11, thousands of Torontonians will remember those who gave their lives for our freedom.

There are a number Remembrance Day ceremonies happening across Toronto. Here are some that are happening in west-end Toronto.

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Service will begin at 8 a.m. and will take place regardless of weather conditions. All are welcome.

SWANSEA REMEMBRANCE DAY CEREMONY ON NOV. 11 Every year, Swansea Town Hall commemorates the men of Swansea who

gave their lives in the First World War. The Swansea Memorial Library was created for those men.

Organizers also use the service to honour those in wars and peacekeeping missions and those who have sacrificed themselves for Canada.

It begins at 10:45 a.m. at Swansea Town Hall, at 95 Lavinia Ave., near Bloor Street West and Windermere Avenue.

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GIVING REST TO WAR VETERANS Five-acre Veterans’ Section at Toronto’s Prospect Cemetery opened in 1917 AARON D’ANDREA adandrea@metroland.com

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rank Phillips, Dennis Morland and Walter L. Rayfield are just some of the roughly 5,300 Canadian and Allied soldiers buried in Toronto’s Prospect Cemetery’s Veteran’s Section.

The five-acre oval plot at the cemetery’s entrance near St. Clair and Lansdowne avenues opened in May 1917 after questions were posed about where to bury the city’s First World War dead.

"Many of them were dying from their wounds that they suffered across the Atlantic (Ocean)," said Rick Cowan, assistant vice-president of marketing and communications at Mount Pleasant Group, which manages Prospect. "There was a concern as to where these men were going to be buried because they were being buried all over the place."

Those discussions took place between the cemetery’s managers at the time, the Trustees of the Toronto General Burying Grounds, and the Great War Veterans Association.

It was recommended that a large section be made available for the soldiers, and would ensure uniform treatment of the graves and would become a place for memorial ser-

Frank Phillips, Dennis Morland and Walter L. Rayfield are just some of the roughly 5,300 Canadian and Allied soldiers buried in Toronto’s Prospect Cemetery’s Veterans’ Section.

vices and military funerals.

"It’s wonderful that the people at the time felt they needed to have one place where they could have all these individuals, but I think for the future generations, there’s so much history there and it says so much about Canada’s birth on the global stage," Cowan said. "All of a sudden, having a national identity and the part that they had to play would be forgotten if it wasn’t for places like this, and it’s not the only one around."

Close to 170,000 people are buried in the 105-acre cemetery. Some of them are veterans but some of their graves aren’t marked.

Capt. James Henderson of the Royal Army Medical Corps became the section’s first interment in July 1917.

He got sick while serving in the Middle East the year prior, according to the Canadian Virtual War Memorial.

In May 1917, Henderson, 39, was on leave in his father’s Toronto home and died two months later from a week-old cold that developed into pneumonia, the Toronto Star

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Antonietta Sweeney and Rick Cowan of Mount Pleasant Group, walk through the Prospect Cemetery’s Veterans’ Section - where the Royal Canadian Legion, Earlscourt Branch 65’s annual Remembrance Day ceremony is held.

wrote at the time.

He is buried near the Cross of Sacrifice, the centrepiece of the section, which was unveiled in June 1922.

"That is a very special part of the cemetery," said

Joan Fenech, president of the Royal Canadian Legion, Earlscourt Branch 65.

Each year since 1928, the Earlscourt branch has held a sunrise service on Remembrance Day in the

Veterans’ Section at 8 a.m.

This year will be its 90th ceremony and its last as it will close its charter due to low membership.

Fenech said Maple Leaf-Swansea Branch 266/46 will organize future ceremonies.

"I didn’t want to see it go," she said of the service. "They were more than happy to do so."

In 2016, staff at the cemetery started renovations on the section ahead of the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War on Nov. 11, 1918.

As part of the project, staff installed a memorial wall on the west side of the section, which features 11 bronze plaques that tell stories of some of Canada contributions to the war.

There is also a plaque commemorating the Earlscourt neighbourhood, where the cemetery is located, during the war. It said that over 2,500 people from the neighbourhood enlisted in the army, more than 320 were killed and many more were wounded.

Staff also created a virtual museum on its website where readers can learn more about the history.

"I think that the plaques that are on that wall will really help the younger generation get an appreciation of what these men and women did for all of our benefit," Cowan

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said. "And I think that’s what’s wonderful about the Remembrance Day service - not just this one, but all of them - is that it’s a real reminder that we live in a very privileged time."

The section will be unveiled after the sunrise ceremony on Nov. 11, he added.

Antonietta Sweeney, manager of family service at Prospect, said it’s important to teach the cemetery’s history to youth so that the veterans and what they fought for are not forgotten.

"We often use this section and all the history here as an education tool," she said. "So it’s the history, it’s continuing the education going forward and really, it’s a living education that they can come out and see and feel."

After being with the legion for 40 years, Fenech said she has told many children that she met over that time about Canada’s wars and what soldiers fought for.

But she has a regular message that she tells youth whenever she meets them: "If you see a veteran ... please go up, shake their hand and say, ’Thank you.’"

Visit www.mountpleasantgroup.com/ resources/first-worldwar-memorial to view the virtual museum.

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Each year since 1928, the Earlscourt branch has held a sunrise service on Remembrance Day in the Veterans’ Section at 8 a.m. This year will be its last.

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REMEMBRANCE DAY 2017 Archived photos offer glimpse into life on home front From wounded warriors and mourning mothers to curious kids and celebratory civilians, the First and Second World Wars touched the lives of all Canadian citizens - and Toronto residents were no exception.

This Remembrance Day, Metroland Media Toronto dug into the Toronto

Archives’ vast collection of First and Second World War-era photographs to select a handful of images that offer a glimpse into life on the wartime home front.

The photos chosen depict those among the scores of injured Canadian soldiers who recuperated from their battlefield

wounds within refuge of Toronto’s hospitals, as well as some of the families left behind by their less fortunate comrades.

They also showcase the innocence of youth against the backdrop of war overseas, and the jubilant celebrations upon war’s longawaited end – Cynthia Reason

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(Clockwise from top right) In this First-World War-era photo, General Sir Arthur William Currie - a Second World War commander of the Canadian Corps is pictured visiting with wounded soldiers at the Christie Street Veterans’ Hospital/Toronto Military Orthopaedic Hospital. Opened in 1919, the factory-turned-hospital treated the legions of veterans wounded in the war, as well as those injured in the Boer War and the Fenian Raids of 1866; Snapped during the V-E (Victory in Europe) Day celebrations on Bay Street in downtown Toronto, this photo from May 7, 1945 captures the jubilance experienced by the whole city upon the announcement that the war ended. Taken on June 26, 1941 at Toronto’s Sunnyside Beach, this photo depicts a pair of bren gun carriers from Borden Camp rolling past a flock of bathing-suited youth during the "Toronto Invasion" – an army training exercise in which troops had to "defend" Toronto from an enemy plot to seize the city.

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hen the Earls Court Branch 65 of the Royal Canadian Legion opened its doors 90 years ago, in the years between the two world wars, it had a membership of 900. Today, its membership sits at just 29, and branch president Joan Fenech has surrendered its charter and closed those doors.

Fenech, who has been a member of the legion for 40 years, has been at Earls Court for the past 18.

"I transferred down to this one because I felt this one needed help," she said.

The members will go to the Maple Leaf/Swansea Branch 266/46, not far off - the legion itself isn’t going anywhere, not right away. But the dramatic contraction at Earls Court is a stark example of the general dwindling of the Royal Canadian Legion over the past decades.

According to Tom Irvine, the first vice-president of the Royal Canadian Legion, the legion has been losing members at a rate of about 8,000 a year. Part of that is due to death - the largest cohort of members are veterans of the Second World War, a conflict that ended more than 70 years ago - but it has been a challenge to attract and retain veterans of more recent conflicts.

Part of that, said Irvine and others interviewed for this article, has to do with the way that the Canadian military recruits and deploys.

In the first two world wars, units tended to gather from particular towns or counties. Since the Second World War, that’s changed.

"Now when the boys come home, the guy from P.E.I. probably joined the regiment in New Brunswick, and when he’s discharged he’s back in P.E.I. and his comrades are across the country," said Irvine. So that easy connection growing up with the people you served with and coming home with some of the same people doesn’t foster a local legion branch with strong individual ties.

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Jack Newman, 87, who was a Sergeant in the Canadian Army reflects at the Remembrance Day service at Prospect Cemetery in 2008. The ceremony was held by members of the Royal Canadian Legion, Earlscourt Branch 65. Today, the Royal Canadian Legion is suffering dwindling membership, as the majority who frequented the legion served in the Second World War.

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DAVID NICKLE dnickle@insidetoronto.com But it’s more than that for some.

Capt. Ryerson Maybee is a 42year-old reservist who served in Bosnia and Afghanistan. He did join the Mount Dennis Legion branch for about a year. But he only went a few times over that year.

"I think the difficulty is that while I recognize the services that they provide - particularly with as-

sisting governments and accessing services, in terms of the social aspect of the legion ... the branch didn’t have very many veterans in it," he said. "They had a lot of associate members. I got put off at it. I didn’t have much in common with the people there."

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"Fifty years ago there were only past service members ... there was no other class," he said. "Over the years we invited family members as associates. Every associate was a family member of a person in the service. So as the service numbers declined in branches, the family

members pitched in. They started taking over the branch because there’s nobody else to fill the shoes. If it wasn’t for the associates, the legion would be dead now."

Sgt. Craig Hood is a reservist in the Queen’s Own Rifles, and he has no problem rubbing elbows with associate members - or anything with regards to the legion. It is, he notes, a "huge organization" which offers profound benefits for soldiers returning from sometimes traumatizing service.

The 44-year-old who has also served in Bosnia, Afghanistan and across Canada, has found plenty of people to talk to at his home branch in Ajax.

"My branch is fortunate - we have 200 veterans from World War 2 to the present day, a few Afghanistan veterans, a lot of British veterans that have served in operations I hadn’t even heard of," he said.

"There has been lots of opportunity to sit down at the table, talk and share stories, find common ground in those generational differences ... different kinds of service ... different operations. It’s healthy."

Capt. Maybee said that he has found that camaraderie in his regimental mess, and Hood says that the clubs have a lot to offer.

"But sometimes you want to talk to someone who’s not as connected to you as closely as regimental family is," he said.

And the legion, with its associate members, also offers something else: a connection between veterans and their communities said Sgt. Hood "We kind of lost our way over the years and decades and centuries of having that bond between the community and those warriors," he said. "The legion has those family members who are connected; they’re the ones most affected by our service. When we come home and are unpacking our emotional baggage, they’re the ones that have to put it away."

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REMEMBRANCE DAY 2017 Moss Park Armoury home to four Canadian forces units youth. The units share the space, each taking over the armoury’s main area for a night each week, with leaders of the Highlanders taking the fifth night.

Many of the reservists, such as Sgt. Jimmy Alban of 25 Field Ambulance, have served overseas, and many have pitched in to help handle domestic crises such as the severe flooding experienced in Quebec earlier this year.

Alban noted that each unit has its own space in the Moss Park Armoury, as well as storage space for food, supplies and emergency items such as tents, first aid kits and more advanced medical supplies.

"If we need to provide housing quickly, or if we need to respond to an emer-

JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com For many, the notion of the Canadian Armed Forces providing aid in Toronto is a foreign concept, limited to the time in 1999 when Mel Lastman called the army in to help clear snow.

Should military service be needed, however, the reservists who train and parade at Moss Park Armoury are ready to do their part.

Located at 130 Queen St. E., the Moss Park Armoury is home to four reserve units: 25 Field Ambulance, the 48th Highlanders of Canada, the Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada, and the 7th Toronto Regiment Royal Canadian Artillery, along with cadet corps for

gency situation, we have everything we need right here," he said.

Large vehicles both inside and outside the armoury can be deployed to serve as mobile medical centres or command units. The larger vehicles have running water, generators and vital equipment, and can be deployed quickly in case of emergency in Toronto or in outlying areas.

"If there’s a big disaster, or something like the snow (in 1999) it would take forever for units to get here from Barrie or Borden or Petawawa," Alban said. "So if there’s ever a really big emergency here, we have a big group of people ready to assist the people of Toronto."

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Members of 25 (Toronto) Field Ambulance prepare for parade at the Moss Park Armoury. at the armoury are more than just an emergency service for Toronto, however.

They undergo regular training and testing that allows them to be deployed to peacekeeping and other military operations over-

seas. Alban himself served in Bosnia in 1998-99 and in Afghanistan in 2008-09.

During his latter tour, he witnessed the horrors of war first-hand.

"It was on Christmas or Boxing Day, and we weren’t

really ramped up for work but then we got the alarm that there would be mass casualties coming in," he recalled.

While he was never apprised as to what caused the injuries - he surmises it was likely an IED or other explosion - he recalls an nearendless stream of Afgan soldiers being brought to the medical treatment facility where he was stationed.

"I couldn’t even tell you how many people I saw that day. They kept being brought in one after another after another."

The day was both physically and mentally exhausting, and Alban still feels its impact.

"I still think about it a lot, especially every Christmas," he said.

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