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Ontario Firefighters Remembered in Queens Park

Monday, 7 October 2024 11:32

By Marcie Culbert X @marcieculbert

Photo Credit: Town of Tillsonburg Fire and Rescue Services Facebook page

Tillsonburg Fire Captain Larry Crossett and Woodstock Fire Chief John Sibley were added to the Ontario Firefighters Memorial yesterday.

QUEENS PARK - Seventy-two names have been added to the Ontario Firefighters Memorial.

Tillsonburg Fire Chief Shane Caskanette attended the ceremony in Queens Park yesterday. He says it was a beautiful ceremony.

"They read the list of names of the fallen and had a bell toll for each of them. Toronto pipes and drums played Amazing Grace and buglers played The Last Post. It was a somber but very fitting tribute to our fallen heroes."

Premier Doug Ford attended the ceremony alongside Lieutenant Governor Edith Dumont, Solicitor General Michael Kerzner, and Ontario Fire Marshall John Pegg.

Caskanette says some local firefighters were added to the memorial.

"One was Larry Crossett, he was a Captain with us for 27 years. The other one was John Sibley who served as a Fire Chief of Woodstock. He was actually the person who hired me in Woodstock back in 1990."

He says those were not the only names he recognized.

"The older I get, the more people I am familiar with the more people I am familiar with are etched into these walls. I have been fortunate enough to work in Tillsonburg, Brantford, Oshawa, Richmond Hill, and Woodstock and unfortunately this year, I think I knew the names of everyone who was added from those locations."

Caskanette also added the Canadian Firefighter Memorial ceremony in Ottawa last month. He says Crossett was added to that memorial as well alongside former Tillsonburg Fire Chief Terry Saelens and John Kovacs, another Tillsonburg firefighter.

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