Honouring Our Local Veterans
About
We are committed to teaching our community, especially future generations, about the incredible contributions of veterans and the role of many Canadians (including Billy Bishop) who sacrificed and served to preserve our freedom. It is our goal to help people remember, respect, and honor the sacrifices that have been made by our military.
Each year the Museum pays tribute to a number of Owen Sound and Grey & Bruce County Veterans in a public ceremony. Plaques are presented to Veterans or their families highlighting their service. Following the ceremony, these plaques go on display around Owen Sound and Grey & Bruce County. In the summer of 2026, these plaques will be returned to the veterans or their families during a ceremony at the Billy Bishop Museum.
2024's Honouring Our Local Veterans ceremony was broadcasted live on Rogers TV Grey County on Sunday, October 27th from The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 6. Please feel free to share the video with you friends and family! Lest we forget.
2024 Honouring Our Local Veterans Ceremony
Video: The 24th Annual Honouring Our Local Veterans Event as 10 local veterans are honoured. For Transcript, open video in new tab.
If you are a Veteran or know a Veteran that you would like to be nominated for our Honouring Our Local Veterans Program, please print and complete a Veteran's Survey, located at the bottom of this page, to submit to the museum.
We are actively looking for Veterans to participate in our program!
If you have any question, please don't hesitate to contact us today!
Photograph of 147th Battalion Kit Inspection at Market Square, Owen Sound Grey County Museum Collection 1968.061.082.
Honoring Our Local Veterans
Profiles by Year
2025's Honourees
Benjamin Roy Ashkewe
Percy James Barber
Margaret Ruth Ellis
Allan Johnson
Howard Arnold Jones
James Russell Martin
Arthur Simpson Martin
Leslie McGregor
William Alexander Spears
Howard Weaver
Veterans and representatives sit under the Honouring Our Local Veteran plaques during the 2025 ceremony, held at the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 6 (Owen Sound) on Sunday, October 26, 2025.
2024's Honourees
Evelyn Bewley
Harold Burr
James Downing
Charles Golden
Thomas "Bert" Golden
Clarence Lapierre
Robert "Red" Larsen
Alfred McLeod
John Joseph "Jack" McLeod
Moses Rabovsky
Lila Johnson, 91, with the plaques honouring her brothers Alfred and Jack McLeod unveiled at the Billy Bishop Museum’s Honouring Our Local Veterans ceremony at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 6 in Owen Sound on Sunday, October 27, 2024. Both brothers were killed in action just six months apart during the Second World War. Photo by Rob Gowan THE SUN TIMES
Are you a local veteran? Take our survey and email it to info@billybishop.org today!
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