Applications Open for 2026 Almonte Legion Honouring Our Veterans Banner Program

From Mary Rozenberg, Honouring Our Veterans Banner Program Coordinator

The 2026 Almonte Legion Honouring Our Veterans Banner Program is now accepting applications.

The purpose of the Honouring Our Veterans Banner Program is to:

• Recognize and honour our veterans and current serving members of the Canadian, Allied, or Commonwealth Forces who have a tie to the communities within the Municipality of Mississippi Mills; and
• Promote remembrance in our community, remembrance of their service and sacrifice, and remembering all gave some, some gave all.

Through displaying banners of veterans, we hope to engage the community in honouring and remembering veterans through an initiative that will ensure continued recognition and respect throughout future generations. Veterans honoured in Mississippi Mills must have a connection to families living in the communities within the Municipality of Mississippi Mills. Legion membership is not a requirement for participation in the banner program.

Veterans’ banners will be displayed throughout our Municipality from Legion Week in September until November 15.

The sponsor of the banner, typically family members, will pay $300 to have the banner designed, printed and displayed (includes taxes, shipping, hardware, installation, takedown, and storage). Sponsors will not be able to reserve or request a specific spot for banner to be hung. The banner committee will look after installation, takedown, cleaning, and storage.

Each veteran’s banner will include their photo (in uniform), name, military affiliation, and banner’s sponsor (see above). Each banner will also include a combined Canadian and British flag at the top of the banner (even if they served another allied country), and at the bottom, the words “Lest We Forget” and the Almonte Legion logo.

How to submit an application

Application forms are available at the Almonte Legion (100 Bridge Street, Almonte, ON K0A 1A0) when the Legion is open. Information to include on the application form:

• Branch of service – Army, Air Force, Navy, Merchant Marine.
• Service – example: First World War, Second World War, Boer, Crimea, Korea, Balkan, Gulf, Bosnia, Croatia, Afghanistan, UN Peacekeeping, NATO, DART.
• Short description of military history – info is for Legion’s purpose only; info will not be included on banner.
• Rank – rank will not be part of the banners; all Veterans to be recognized as equals
• Name of the sponsor – family, friend(s), community sponsors are suitable.
• Photograph – photo to be submitted must be high resolution 5” x 7” (minimum size) portrait size photo of the person in uniform. Digital photos in pdf or similar format of 300 dpi or better can also be submitted.

Download the application:

• Veteran Banner Application 2026 (Word)
• Veteran Banner Application 2026 (PDF)

Apply at Almonte Legion on February 21

We will be accepting applications in-person on the lower level of the Almonte Legion on Saturday, February 21, 2026 between 8:30 and 11 a.m.

If you would like to honour a veteran with a banner, submit the application form completed along with a high resolution 5” x 7” (minimum size) portrait style photograph of the Veteran in uniform to the Almonte Legion, Branch 240, to the attention of Mary Rozenberg and a cheque of $300 made payable to Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 240 – Honouring Our Veterans Banner Program. A digital photo in JPEG or similar format of 300 dpi or better is acceptable and can be emailed to the following address: mary@interlinkx.com.

Deadline for submitting your application for 2026 along with an acceptable photograph and cheque is Thursday, April 30, 2026.

Although the banners technically belong to the sponsors, all banners will be stored at the Almonte Legion so they will be together and easily available when it’s time to put the banners up around Mississippi Mills each year.

This program will put a face on the names of veterans and keep their legacies alive.