Registered charity name Friends of Veterans Canada.
Randy Young, President, Harry Watts (87 yr. old WW2 veteran dispatch rider) former Vice President
519 679-8190.
Charity Office: 956 Ormsby Street, London ON N5Z1K4
Web Site www.fovcanada.ca  fov @ rogers.ca
Subject “Friends of Veterans Canada” and the “National Video-A-Veteran Contest.

Stated goal: is to video tape our World War 2, Korea War and peace keeping mission veteran’s for the “Harry Watts Veterans Video Library” so that future generations of Canadians will have a place to go for the true story, from a Canadian veteran's perspective.
 

Our veteran's biographies collected though the National Video –A-Veteran Contest will be made available to school libraries for FREE through the Harry Watts Veterans Video Library. Our mission is so that after all of our older veterans have gone their stories will live on. Teachers will have recorded Canadian veteran’s stories to share with their students for their Remembrance Day lessons.

We are available for interviews starting at 6am daily with a 24 hr. notice.

The “Harry Watts Veterans Video Library” is holding the “National Video-A-Veteran Contest”. This contest is open to Canadian history buffs, in co-operation with student and teacher's, across Canada. We are inviting Canadian’s to become a history gather and “Video-A-Veteran” subject and make a history friend, in their local area during Remembrance week . Then send the veteran's video biography for judging to the address below. Videos must be submitted by December 24, 2010. The 2010 winner's of the student contest will be awarded a trip to Normandy France in 2011. The “National Video-A-Veteran Contest” will be awarding one trip to Normandy France from each province for the provincial veteran winner's of the 2010 contest. Please download the entry form from our web site www.fovcanada.ca/contest.php.

 We will be making a documentary about retracing Giggs Borland’s military service from Normandy to Dieppe to Paris. Giggs was a scout that went into Normandy on D+12 and commanded a scout unit. Giggs’s men were the first solderis into Dieppe after our first attempt and was involved in the only (according to Giggs) Liberation parade that the Canadians had in Europe.

 We will be giving each of the veteran winner's on the trip, a video camera for the trip to video tape their point of view for the documentary. The finished documentary will be entered in 2011 Canadian Film Festivals. The benefit is twofold, firstly the history gather will learn about their local veteran's history and secondly, the winners will learn about Canadian history. The contest is open to all Canadians and especially with Canadian students from grade five to grade twelve. The end goal is to gather additional biographies for the “Harry Watts veterans Video Library”.
Remembering our veterans should last for more than one day a year. I want my 25 year old son to know that we, as Canadians, will remember our veteran's service to our country.


Our slogan is “Let those who come after not let their names be forgotten”

Act Today, we are a registered Canadian charity and need your help (we can issue income tax receipts).
Thanks so much,
President “Friends of Veterans Canada”
Randy Young
Charity headquarters
956 Ormsby Street
London ON N5Z1K4

Phone number
519 679-8190