The centenary celebration of the battle of Lundy's Lane, July twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and fourteen . THE MAYORS SIR JOHN (JIBSON DELIVERING HIS ADDRESS. COMMEMORATIVE EXERCISES 45 earnest hope, to a continuance of that greatest of allblessings. Peace on earth, good will mongst men, From Heavens Eternal King;And for the past with its peaceful gratefully join in the hymns of praiseWhich the blessed Angels sing. Special Decoration of the Oldest Graveand Battle Monument A special decoration then took place of the oldestgrave in the cemetery (1797) by Col. G. Sterling Ryers
The centenary celebration of the battle of Lundy's Lane, July twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and fourteen . THE MAYORS SIR JOHN (JIBSON DELIVERING HIS ADDRESS. COMMEMORATIVE EXERCISES 45 earnest hope, to a continuance of that greatest of allblessings. Peace on earth, good will mongst men, From Heavens Eternal King;And for the past with its peaceful gratefully join in the hymns of praiseWhich the blessed Angels sing. Special Decoration of the Oldest Graveand Battle Monument A special decoration then took place of the oldestgrave in the cemetery (1797) by Col. G. Sterling Ryerson,President of the United Empire Loyalists Association ofCanada, and Miss Helen M. Merrill, Hon. Secretary, ofToronto, who laid a very beautiful wTcath of flowers onthe historic grave. This ceremony was followed by the laying of a laurelwreath upon the Lundys Lane Battle Monument, bearingthe inscription, Honor the brave dead of Lundys Lane,by Mrs. J. Russell Simpson, Hon. Recording Secretary andSpecial Delegate from the Womens Canadian HistoricalSociety of Ottawa; a compliment much appreciated bythe Lundys Lane Historical
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