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AFGHANISTAN REPATRIATION MEMORIAL

Welcome to this place of contemplation and tribute to Canadian soldiers who lost their lives in the war in Afghanistan.

BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AIR TRAINING PLAN (DESERONTO)

Location of #1 Instrument Flying School, Camp Mohawk, April 2, 1943, August 31, 1945

CAPTAIN GEORGE FRASER KERR

Born at Deseronto, Kerr attended schools here and in Toronto. With the outbreak of the First World War,

CAPTAIN JOHN W. MEYERS 1745-1821

Meyers gained fame as a Loyalist spy during the American Revolution.

CHAMPLAIN'S WAR PARTY 1615

In September, 1615, a small party of Frenchmen, commanded by Samuel de Champlain, and some five hundred Huron Indians, passed down the Trent River.... READ MORE

GOLDEN HAWK

This Golden Hawk aircraft was originally refurbished in May 1987...

JOHN WEIR FOOTE

The only chaplain in World War II to receive the Victoria Cross, John Weir Foote was born and raised in Madoc.

MADOC, 385 ARMY CADETS

With war threatening n Europe in 1913, a cadet corps was formed in Madoc from the student body of the high school.

RCAF No. 5 INITIAL TRAINING SCHOOL (ITS) BELLEVILLE

In World War II, the RCAF No. 5 ITS occupied this facility from 1941 to 1944 under an agreement between the federal and Ontario governments.

TRENTON POST OFFICE

The door of the old Trenton Post Office has taken an official pounding...... READ MORE