Nearly a century after the Armistice the Department of Veterans Affairs is still paying out pension benefits for service in the First World War, according to Access To Information records. The department counted a total 82 beneficiaries, all widows and orphans. Canada’s last surviving WWI infantryman died eight years ago: ‘It becomes our duty, more than ever, to remember.’
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