DIANE HUNTER

Ce dimanche, les belles voitures auront la cote sur la Main, avec l’exposition annuelle du Club d’autos de Hawkesbury. Hawkesbur y’s annual ribfest will be going on at Place des Pionniers Labour Day weekend during the Auto Expo. On Saturday, September 5, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., and Sunday, September 6, from 11 am to 2 pm, Main Street is going to smell pretty good. The event will include live bands including Nadia Dicaire and Pierre Brazeau Saturday night. “We want to make things happen in this town,” said Roxanne Courcy, president of the Chamber of Commerce. “We will have bands, local musicians, and Déjà Vu, Le Vieux Château, and Carole’s will all have booths set up. This town’s gonna rock!” – The Great War saw more than nine million combatant deaths, and seven million civilians. It was one of the deadliest conflicts in history paving the way for change. The Dalkeith Historical Society will be paying tribute to the men and women who gave so much to find peace.

World War 1 began on July 28, 1914 and did not end until November 11, 1918. By the end of the war, the German Empire, Russian Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire had ceased to exist.

In December 1916, peace talks began as the Germans attempted to negotiate a peace treaty with the Allies after 10 brutal months of the Battle of Verdun. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson attempted to intervene as a peacemaker. Events of 1917 proved decisive in ending the war, although their effects were not fully felt until 1918. On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918 a ceasefire came into effect. War between the two sides persisted for another