Blacklock's Reporter

The Department of Veterans Affairs has agreed to take over management of the largest private military cemetery in the nation at a $15.9 million cost. The National Field of Honour at Pointe-Clair, Que. was established in 1929 by private donors as a dignified resting place for impoverished veterans facing a pauper’s grave: “No man who has given his services in defence of his country should be buried as a pauper.”