The Royal Canadian Legion Huntsville Branch 232 and the Town of Huntsville are inviting everyone to celebrate the Huntsville Honour Roll’s new home at the Canada Summit Centre next Wednesday (Oct. 9) at 7 p.m.
Officials say it lists 400 people from Huntsville who served in the Armed Forces during the Second World War, which was about 15 per cent of the town’s population at the time (2,700 residents).
According to officials, the Honour Roll was hung in the Huntsville Post Office in November 1947, which was located in the Huntsville Civic Centre at the time. It was moved to the Centre Street entrance of the new Huntsville Post Office in 1955, and featured prominently until the front entrance was moved to Main Street.
They add it is cased in a five-foot-tall and 13-foot-long oak frame built by Alf Harper, who was commissioned to build it in 1945, and weighs approximately 200 lb.
