[Newsbot]

Title: Canada\'s oldest First World War vet dies
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: WDHIII
Date: 2008-08-24 10:03:05
Canadian

[PENATRATOR]

:The couple first settled in Calgary but eventually moved to B.C. in 1925 because Powers found the Alberta winters unbearable. They did most of the trip on foot, walking almost 1,000 kilometres along the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks because they had little money:

A truly remarkable generation is almost gone, Rest in Peace

[tritium]

What a sweetheart.

What a loss to Canada.

May God welcome her with warmth, love and open arms.

[Thanos]

Is Streaker cracking open as beer somewhere right about now?