The day before Remembrance Day, sadly no longer a public holiday in Ontario, CBC NS reports that the list of WWI vets now contains only ten names with the death of Harold Radford at 106:

He was part of a Canadian campaign to Siberia in 1918, serving with the Nova Scotia Regiment in Vladivostok. Radford was also a star baseball player in Halifax, before and after his military days.

I suppose that would have been post-Soviet revolution action but I had no idea that Canadians fought in Russia then. Here is some info. Odd to think that this was happening at the same time in Winnipeg and, a few years later, this was happening in Nova Scotia. Different times. We now take for granted the type of society these guys were fighting for - perhaps more the fight here than abroad.

As I wrote last D-Day, when I was a kid the church pews were full of these guys in their 70's, old guys in dark suits shoving peppermint candies in your mitts, next to warbling wives in the rows benind you - now all gone.