Métis Veteran “Alice” Marie Victoria Samuel (nee Petit) (October 19, 1925 - September 1, 2022) joined the Canadian Armed forces in 1943 at the age of 18 and served as an Orderly Room Clerk in Calgary, Alberta.
Métis Veteran Charles “Charlie” Fosseneuve (June 6, 1917 - September 12, 2008) joined the Canadian Armed Forces in 1942 at the age of 25 and served as a gunner with the 13th Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery in continental Europe and the United Kingdom from 1942-1946. He was awarded with the Canadian Volunteer Medal and Service Medal.
Métis Veteran Clifford Maurice Whiteford (June 29, 1922 - February 22, 2003) joined the Canadian Armed Forces in 1943, at the age of 21 and served in WWII until the end of the war, in 1945.
Métis Veteran Edward King (November 18, 1925 - Jan 5, 2001) joined the Canadian Armed forces in 1943 at the age of 17 and served with the Regina Rifles, the Winnipeg Rifles and the Canadian Scottish Regiment in England and continental Europe. He was injured in battle twice, and received many medals for his service, including the 1939-45 Star, the France and Germany Star, the Defence Medal, the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with Clasp, and the War Medal 1939-45.
Métis Veteran Homer Adams (date of birth unknown - 1970) joined the Canadian Armed Forces and served with the Royal Regina Rifles in England and Germany. He was among those who landed on Juno Beach in Normandy, France. He was awarded the Military Medal by King George VI of England.
Métis Veteran Izadore (Isidore) LaPlante (January 1, 1879 - uknown date of death) of Saskatchewan Landing, Saskatchewan enlisted on July 8, 1916 at the age of 37. He served as a member of the 212th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force.
Regimental number: 261699
Isidore was born at Cypress Hills to father, Isidore Laplante and mother, Philomène Fagnant (Métis); scrip cert.: form E, no. 660.
Métis Veteran Louis Roy (August 1920 - January 11, 2022) joined the Canadian Armed Forces in 1942 at the age of 22 and served in England, Africa, Sicily and Italy as a member of the Saskatoon Light Infantry.
Métis Veteran Peter Lemere (February 10, 1881 - 1964) of Lac Pelletier, Saskatchewan joined the Canadian Over-Seas Expeditionary Force on April 24, 1918 at the age of 37.
Métis Veteran Solomon Goulet (December 4, 1923 - March 11, 2007) joined the Canadian Armed Forces in 1943 at the age of 19 and served with the Cameron Highlanders (Ottawa) in France, Belgium, Holland, Germany and Luxembourg. He was captured and held as a prisoner of war for eleven months.
Métis Veteran Vital Morin (June 17, 1923 - November 13, 2000) joined the Canadian Armed forces in 1940 at the age of 17 and served in the Regina Rifle Regiment. He served in England, before landing on Juno Beach in Normandy, France, on D-Day, 1944. In mid-February of the following year, Vital was captured by the Germans and spent the next three months at the Stalag 11B Prison Camp outside of Berlin before being liberated on May 6, 1945 at which time he was transported to a hospital in England to recover. He returned to Canada on July 1, 1945.
