The purpose of the ‘Honouring Our Veterans’ Banner Program is to:
- Recognize and honour our Veterans and current serving members of the Canadian, Allied, or Commonwealth Forces who have a tie to the communities within the Municipality of Mississippi Mills.
- Promote Remembrance in our community, remembrance of their service and sacrifice, and remembering all gave some, some gave all.
Through displaying banners of Veterans, we hope to engage the community in honouring and remembering local Veterans through an initiative that will ensure continued recognition and respect throughout future generations.
Veterans’ banners will be displayed throughout our Municipality from Legion Week in September until November 15th. The sponsor of the banner, normally family members, will pay $300 to have the banner designed, printed and displayed (includes taxes, shipping, hardware, installation, takedown, and storage).
All banners include the same flags, even if they served another allied country.
Veterans honoured in Mississippi Mills have a tie to the communities within the Municipality of Mississippi Mills.
The Banner Committee will look after installation, takedown, cleaning, and storage.
Legion membership by the sponsor is not a requirement for participation in the banner program.
Each Veteran’s banner will include their photo (in uniform), name, military affiliation, and banner’s sponsor. Each banner will also include a combined Canadian and British Flag at the top of the banner, and at the bottom, the words “Lest We Forget” and the Almonte Legion logo.
Information to include on the application form:
- Branch of Service – Army, Air Force, Navy, Merchant Marine.
- Service – for example: WWI, WWII, Boer, Crimea, Korea, Balkan, Gulf, Bosnia, Croatia, Afghanistan, UN Peacekeeping, NATO, DART.
- Short description of military history – info is for Legion’s purpose only; info will not be included on banner.
- Rank – rank will not be part of the banners as we want all Veterans to be recognized as equals.
- Photograph – Photo to be submitted must be in a high resolution 5” x 7” (minimum size) portrait size photo of the person in uniform. Digital photos in pdf or similar format of 300 dpi or better can also be submitted.
- Name of the sponsor – family, friend(s), community sponsors are suitable.
Open the Banner Project Application Form (MS Word) or Banner Project Application Form (PDF).
Paper versions also available at the Almonte Legion (100 Bridge Street, Almonte, ON K0A 1A0) when the Legion is open.
If you would like to participate and honour a Veteran with a banner, submit the application form completed with a high resolution 5” x 7” (minimum size) portrait style photograph of the Veteran in uniform to the Almonte Legion, Branch 240, to the attention of Mary Rozenberg and a cheque of $300 made payable to RCL Branch 240 – Honour Our Veterans Banner Program. A digital photo in pdf or similar format of 300 dpi or better is acceptable and can be emailed to the following address: mary@interlinkx.com
Prior to sending any banner for printing, the Sponsor will review and approve spelling.
The deadline for participation / submitting your application for 2025 along with an acceptable photograph and cheque will be Wednesday April 30, 2025. New submissions will be accepted starting in January of each year as this will be an ongoing legacy project that will pay tribute to all Canadian and Allied Veterans. As the banner program grows, banners may hang in other Mississippi Mills’ communities.
Although the banners technically belong to the sponsors, all banners will be stored at the Almonte Legion so they will be together and easily available when it’s time to put the banners up around Mississippi Mills each year.
As a community that supports and honours its Veterans through community and school activities, this program will put a face on the names of Veterans and keep their legacies alive. The company that produces the banners donates a portion of each banner sale to support Homeless Veteran Programs.