Did you Know that...
May 1 Battle of the Atlantic (1945)
May 1 - 7 National Youth Week
May 3 John McCrae wrote “In Flanders Fields’ poem
May 4-10 CMHA Mental Health Week
May 4 Royal Canadian Navy founded (1910)
May 5 Liberation of Netherlands (1945)
May 8 VE Day (1945)
May 8 Mother’s Day
May 15 International Day of Families
May 19 Canadian Army founded (1855)
May 21 National War Memorial unveiled (1939)
May 23 Victoria Day
May 25 Ypres (1915)
May 28 Tomb of Unknown Solider (2000)
May 29 International Day of UN Peacekeepers
May 30 US Memorial Day
May 31 End of South African (Boer) War (1902)
Submitted by Rose Lamingman 1st Vice President