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Honouring Our Past: Stories from the Guelph Cenotaph

With Author Ed Butts
2025-11-06 18:30:00 2025-11-06 19:30:00 America/New_York Honouring Our Past: Stories from the Guelph Cenotaph Author Ed Butts shares stories from the Guelph Cenotaph and his book: "This Withering Disease of Conflict: A Canadian Soldier's Chronicle of the First World War". For adults. Please register.   Main - Program Room

Thursday, November 06
6:30pm - 7:30pm

Add to Calendar 2025-11-06 18:30:00 2025-11-06 19:30:00 America/New_York Honouring Our Past: Stories from the Guelph Cenotaph Author Ed Butts shares stories from the Guelph Cenotaph and his book: "This Withering Disease of Conflict: A Canadian Soldier's Chronicle of the First World War". For adults. Please register.   Main - Program Room

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Author Ed Butts shares stories from the Guelph Cenotaph and his book: "This Withering Disease of Conflict: A Canadian Soldier's Chronicle of the First World War". For adults. Please register.  

Join author Ed Butts as he shares the stories behind the names on the Guelph Cenotaph. Drawing from his book "This Withering Disease of Conflict: A Canadian Soldier's Chronicle of the First World War," Ed will read selections from wartime correspondence and reflect on the lives remembered.

By participating in this program you acknowledge and accept the Guelph Public Library's Code of Conduct.

If you have any questions, please contact Library Programmer Lauren Contini at lcontini@guelphpl.ca.

Alternative formats are available as per the Accessibility per Ontarians Act by contacting Library Communications at 519-824-6220.

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Speakers | Other | History |

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