Lac La Ronge war veteran honored half a century after death
More than 50 years after his death, a veteran from the La Ronge area is being honoured with a memorial headstone.
A short march of Saskatchewan Aboriginal veterans, La Ronge RCMP, family and friends of the family made their way to the La Ronge Indian Band Cemetery on Tuesday for a memorial service.
There, a special war veteran’s grave marker was placed at Joseph Halkett’s grave site.
There are a lot of veterans in their gravesite that do not yet have gravestones said David Crane co-ordinator for the Comprehensive Community Based Plan in the La Ronge area.