Last week, about the time my Twitter feed was including reminders of the anniversary of the start of the First World War, we were driving along quiet country backroads on Manitoulin Island (you should go) and came across the site of a local township's 1920s war memorial, which has gradually become the island's "Memorial Corner" -- including, across the street from the usual memorial, this extensive tribute to women's services in the twentieth century wars -- something I'd never seen before.
No matter how small the community, anywhere, the lists of names from the First World War are always long, and the one here includes a notable number of Odjigs and Migwans and other names from Manitoulin's substantial Anishnaabe communities.
