From First World War to modern challenges: Royal Canadian Legion celebrates 100 years - The Stettler Independent

From First World War to modern challenges: Royal Canadian Legion celebrates 100 years - The Stettler Independent

The Royal Canadian Legion, the longest-running veteran support organization in the country, celebrates its centennial in 2026. Veterans’ organizations began forming in Canada as soldiers returned home from the front lines of the First World War beginning in 1915. Following the end of the war in 1918, the recognition of the First Remembrance Day on Nov. 11, 1919 and the adoption of the poppy as a sign of remembrance in 1921, several veterans’ gro…