Name/Title
Ken WellerEntry/Object ID
d2020-002-036Scope and Content
A navy blue promotional and fundraising brochure, featuring a cover photograph of prominent local veteran Ken Weller. The brochure outlines strategies for Royal Canadian Legion branches to enhance community engagement, membership pride, and fundraising capabilities.
A multi-colored printed promotional brochure.
Cover Text: Printed in white text at the top: "Boost your Local Legion's: Community Identity, Pride of Membership, Fundraising Power." Directly below this, printed in red text on the left-hand side, is the company tagline: "unique promotional and fundraising items Garwall and Company."
Cover Imagery: The cover features several red maple leaf icons and a prominent color photograph of Ken Weller at the bottom. In the portrait, Weller is depicted wearing a black shirt, beige reading glasses, and a light beige (camel) ball cap embroidered with a red maple leaf and the text: "Royal Canadian Legion Beaver Valley BR. 281".
The brochure exhibits seventeen (17) small pinholes/tack holes clustered along the top edge, indicating it was previously pinned to a bulletin board or wall display.
The cover subject, Kenneth Weller, was a World War II veteran and a dedicated 66-year member of the Royal Canadian Legion, Beaver Valley Branch 281 (Clarksburg/Thornbury). At the time of his passing in December 2019, he was recognized as the oldest living World War II survivor in the local area.