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Kind thoughts and Best Wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy Prosperous New Year.

Inside is a picture of Memorial Communion Table  in St Andrew’s Presbeterian Church.

The Memorial Communion Table sits in the centre of the chancel and was dedicated on Remembrance Day, Sunday 11 November 1934 by The Rev. Stuart C. Parker, D.D., Minister of St. Andrew’s and Chaplain of the Regiment.  The table, a gift of the sergeants in memory of their comrades who fell in the First World War, stands as a memorial to those of both world wars and has been used since its dedication at every celebration of the Sacrament of Holy Communion. The table, wrought in oak, was designed by Dr. John A. Pearson, a member of the church, a sergeant in the 48th and architect of the present Parliament Buildings and the Peace Tower in Ottawa. In abutments under glass tops at each end is the Book of Remembrance, upon which the names and ranks of the dead of both world wars, 1,818 soldiers, are inscribed in elegant block script on 25 parchment pages. One page is turned each year in the Remembrance Day ceremony.