Today, at the Lachine Canal National Historic Site, Parks Canada honoured Montreal-born Commander J. Campbell Clouston of the Royal Navy as a Hometown Hero.
J. Campbell Clouston was born near the Lachine Canal in Montreal, Quebec, on August 31, 1900, to William Stewart Clouston and Evelyn Campbell, from Lachine. Subsequently living across from the Pointe-Claire Yacht Club, “Campbell,” as referred to by family and friends, learned to sail on nearby Lake Saint Louis, winning, the Challenge Cup in 1913.
Parks Canada will honour Commander J. Campbell Clouston, a hero from the “Miracle of Dunkirk”, during an interpretive panel unveiling ceremony at the Lachine Canal National Historic Site.
Today, Jim Miller, Saskatchewan Member of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada HSMBC, commemorated Montgomery Place National Historic Site with the unveiling of a HSMBC plaque.
Bill Casey, Member of Parliament for Cumberland—Colchester, on behalf of the Minister of Environment and Climate Change and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, Catherine McKenna, today commemorated the importance of Beaubassin as a place of national historic significance and officially opened the view park at Beaubassin and Fort Lawrence National Historic Sites.
Parks Canada and the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada will take part in a plaque unveiling ceremony to commemorate the Montgomery Place National Historic Site.