Jan-Feb-Mar Edition

In This Issue

(Executive Committee - removed from online version: contact the secretary for your copy)

Of Special Interest

Manitoba Region

Lunches & meetings on the 2^nd Thursday of every month at St. James Legion, noon – accessible
Ladies Tea & Tidbits June 19th, 1-3 p.m
April 9, 2010 WWI service across Canada
May 2, 2010 Navy celebrating Battle of the Atlantic with a parade;
May 4^th 2010 commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Royal Canadian Navy
May 30^thVE Day 65th Anniversary Commemoration Memorial Service and Parade - Brookside Cemetery

BC Region

Spring Luncheons - June 5^thfor Vancouver and June 12^th for Victoria

Online Calendar

Are you sponsoring an upcoming event? Make sure to advertise it on the HKVCA online calendar. You can email Jim at hkvca@shaw.ca to be added to the calendar editors, or just give him the information and he'll do the updating for you. You can view the calendar by pointing your browser to: http://www.hkvca.ca/calendar/index.htm

Other Items

Souvenir video of the Dedication of the Memorial Wall August 15, 2009 available for $25 – please send cheques to the address at the bottom of the page

2010 Dues are owed now – please remit to your region as soon as possible - Thank you.

We Are Making Progress!

290 of our members have signed up to use email as their primary method of communication with HKVCA. The $$ savings for us are significant, but these members are able to take advantage of our other services as well. In our pursuit of our main objectives of advocacy and education, we can alert them to pertinent events, allowing them to get involved and influence government decisions.

If you have concerns about the use of your email address, please note that we do not share this information with anyone, and only use it to let you know about newsletters and important events. All emails we send use "BCC" which means no other addressee will be able to see your email address.

Want to sign up for our email service? It's simple - just send an email to this address and we'll make it happen: hkvca@shaw.ca

Membership Statistics

Up to date as of 9 Mar '10

Region	R	V	W	Total
Al/Sask	57	13	13	83
Atl	48	4	7	59
BC	98	12	39	149
MB	189	14	57	260
ON	153	17	55	226
QC	55	17	57	129
Total	600	77	228	906

V: Veteran
W: Widow
R: Regular

What We Do and How We Do It

HKVCA Mission: to educate all Canadians on the role of Canada's soldiers in the Battle of Hong Kong and on the effects of the internment of the battle’s survivors on both the soldiers and their families. We also assist in the support and welfare of Hong Kong veterans and their widows.

Goals

Maintaining personal contact with the veterans and widows to establish the state of their well-being,
Advocating on behalf of the Veterans and widows to Veterans Affairs Canada and other relevant agencies,
Promoting the study of the Battle of Hong Kong and its aftermath in schools across Canada,
Developing materials and training Association members to tell the Hong Kong story publicly,
Finding opportunities for and developing partnerships with other organizations which can further the aims of the Association,
Maintaining a web site for the use of Association members and others which provides a repository of information about the Battle, the incarceration of Canadians, activities of the Association and other information which would be useful to interested parties, and
Participating in memorial services commemorating Canada’s war veterans and laying of wreaths to the memory of the fallen.

Please inform us of any address changes so we can stay in touch and communicate with the newsletter.

WASURERU-NAI

“Never Forget”