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2020 Museum Volunteer Recognition Night

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On Thursday 6 February 2020 we held our annual volunteer recognition night at The Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada Officers’ Mess in Moss Park Armory.

The Regimental Museum and Archive is a completely volunteer run operation and this year the museum saw 1,444 hours of service provided by 60 volunteers. This evening is an opportunity to recognize our most regular volunteers with certificates for the total number of hours they have provided to the museum (as of December 31, 2019 and rounded to the 25 hours completed.)

Certificates of Volunteer Appreciation were presented to following by our Museum Board Chair, Mr. James Lutz:

  • Private Steven Hu (25 hrs)
  • Master Corporal Chris Thiers-Gomez (25 hrs)
  • *Master Corporal Mark Kusi-Appiah (35 hrs)
  • Corporal Mario Carvalho (50 Hrs)
  • Officer Cadet Steven Ye (75 hrs)
  • Mr. Colin Sedgwick-Pinn (100 hrs)
  • Photographer Ms. Anne Frazer (150 hrs)
  • *Ms. Meryn Winters (150 hrs)
  • Weapons Officer Mr. Rob Grieve (175 hrs)
  • *Captain Ken Kominek (200 hrs)
  • Collections Officer Ms. Cheryl Copson (550 hrs)
  • *Collections Assistant Ms. Briahna Bernard (550 hrs)
  • Assistant Curator Sergeant Graham Humphrey (775 hrs)
  • Deputy Curator CWO Shaun Kelly (Ret’d)  (900 hrs)

*Unable to attend but presented later.

Those with the most “life-time” hours were also presented with $50 gift certificates for Cibo Wine Bar which were kindly donated by the Liberty Entertainment Group.

We were also pleased to present certificates of appreciation to recognize the support of the following:

  • Commanding Officer LCol Frank Lamie
  • Regimental Sergeant Major CWO Donovan O’Halloran
  • Casa Loma Curator Marcela Torres

Thank you to everyone who has helped support our museum in 2019 with their time and talents!

If you are interested in volunteering with us, you can find more information and an application form on our website.

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2016 Volunteer Recognition Reception

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Last week we were pleased to hold our volunteer recognition ceremony at The Queen’s Own Rifles Sergeants’ Mess to thank many of the 86 volunteers who provide 1,731 hours during 2016.

Volunteers do a very wide range of task: painting, construction, cataloging, database entry, creating exhibits, cleaning, photography, social media, taking the museum on the road, planning, renovations, creating labels and background panels, research, transcription, digitization, re-enacting, events – I’m sure I’ve missed a lot of other activities.

Some volunteers put in a few hours each year and several a lot more but all our appreciated for the skills, expertise and commitment they bring to the museum.

Fourteen of our volunteers have put in more more than 25 hours and our top five were thanked with some gifts provided by Museum Board member Adam Hermant:

235 hours

  • Capt (Ret’d) Larry Hicks (the most hours again in 2016 and our indispensable photography technician.

Over 150 hours:

  • MCpl Graham Humphrey
  • CWO (Ret’d) Shaun Kelly

Over 100 hours:

  • Cheryl Copson

Over 75 hours:

  • Laura Colangelo
  • Alex Meyers

Over 50 hours:

  • Elizabeth Taugher
  • Nicole Lines (nee Simpson)

Over 25 hours:

  • WO Emily Kenney
  • Cpl Justin Dremanis
  • Cpl Dave Strachan
  • Coleman Weir
  • Rob Grieve
  • Jim Lutz

We also want to thank the Commanding Officer LCol Sandi Banerjee and RSM CWO Paul Martin for their outstanding support and for joining us at our reception.

Thanks also to the Sergeants’ Mess for hosting us and to our generous supporter for offsetting the costs of the reception!

If you are interested in volunteering at the Regimental Museum – whether you’re a serving or former member of the regiment or just someone who thinks this might be a cool way to spend their Thursday evenings, you can find out more information on our Volunteer page.

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Volunteer Recognition Night 2016

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On Thursday January 28th over 30 volunteers joined us at the Officers’ Mess for a reception to recognize volunteer service to the museum in 2015. In total 93 volunteers put in over 1,600 hours!

We were pleased to be joined by Honorary Lieutenant Colonel Lionel Goffart, members of the Museum Board of Governors,  and the Deputy Commanding Officer and President of the Officers’ Mess Committee, Major Shawn Stewart.

Thanks to Adam Hermant, Rob Chan, and Pat Di Donato of the Liberty Entertainment Group, we were able to presents some gifts to our top volunteers in terms of hours of service:

  1. Larry Hicks (235 hours)
  2. Graham Humphrey (184 hours)
  3. Shaun Kelly (121 hours)
  4. Ken Kominek (88 hours)
  5. Cheryl Copson (77 hours)
  6. Joe Wyatt (76 hours)
  7. Rob Grieve (73 hours)

The presentations were followed by a tour of the various messes at Moss Park Armoury which are filled with fascinating collections of military heritage.

We’re also pleased that some of our occasional volunteers have expressed an interest in becoming more regular and we look forward to another successful year in 2016!