The eight Books of Remembrance, housed in the Peace Tower of the Canadian Parliament Buildings, list the names of the 120,000 dead from the War of 1812, the Nile Expedition and the South African War, First World War, Second World War, Korean War, Newfoundland, Merchant Navy and in the Service of Canada.

There is no book for those who died in the North West Canada Campaign of 1885.

Before putting your Remembrance Day poppy away for another year, perhaps give a thought for the dead of the 90th Winnipeg Battalion of Rifles. Of the nearly 2,000 men who died in the battlefields between 1885-1945 while serving in the Royal Winnipeg Rifles and its predecessors, only seven are interred in Winnipeg, with one each in the Ontario cities of St. Catharines and St. Thomas.

In March 1885, the men of t

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