Fisher River Remembers Our Veterans
More than 3,500 status Indian volunteers enlisted in the first World War from all across Canada. According to Indian Affairs records this “number represents approximately thirty-five per cent of the Indian male population of military age” between 1914 and 1919, and this doesn’t even include the enlisted men that Indian Affairs didn’t know about.1 The Great War broke out in 1914 many years before our people were granted Canadian citizenship.2 […]