by Susan Schalin | Oct 28, 2013 | News and Media
The annual installation of white crosses along Memorial Drive is underway. Every year volunteers put about three thousand crosses along the road near Centre Street. The crosses represent Alberta soldiers killed in war time or during peacekeeping duties. Each cross has...
by Susan Schalin | Oct 28, 2013 | News and Media
It’s been a somber work-in-progress honouring war’s sacrifice its founder hopes will grow no more. For the fifth year crosses, each denoting one of the 3,000 southern Albertans who lost their lives in Canada’s conflicts and peacekeeping, have been planted on the north...
by Susan Schalin | Nov 1, 2012 | News and Media
CALGARY- A solemn ceremony was held at sunrise on Thursday morning, in honour of a Calgary man whose vision and determination helped establish the field of crosses along Memorial Drive. George Bittman was a navy veteran and former head of the Poppy Fund, before dying...
by Susan Schalin | Oct 20, 2012 | News and Media
The McCann Family Foundation, the Calgary Poppy Fund and the Field of Crosses Memorial Project’s volunteer board of directors wishes to welcome Calgarians to the annual Field of Crosses Memorial Project. “A yearly tribute to Southern Alberta’s fallen...
by Susan Schalin | Nov 3, 2011 | News and Media
The crosses are back on Memorial Drive. There are thousands of them, each white marker a stark reminder of the many southern Alberta soldiers to die in combat. Murray McCann, whose McCann Family Foundation funds the project to erect crosses along Memorial Drive in...
