North Delta crosswalk celebrates 100 years of Royal Canadian Legion<\/p>\n
Published 3:00 pm Friday, September 4, 2026<\/p>\n
Members of Legion Branch 61, mayor and council, and Delta\u2019s MP took part in a ceremony on Saturday, Aug. 29 dedicating a North Delta crosswalk in commemoration of the Royal Canadian Legion\u2019s 100th anniversary.<\/p>\n
The crosswalk is a project of Branch 61 in Ladner honouring those who served Canada in times of war, military conflict and peacekeeping \u201cto keep the memory of their achievements and sacrifices alive for all Canadians,\u201d and to create a greater awareness of the important work the legion does for the community.<\/p>\n
The newly-painted crosswalk is located between the North Delta Public Safety Building and North Delta Recreation Centre, on the north side of 84th Avenue at 114th Street.<\/p>\n
About 75 per cent of the funding was provided by Phil Sutton of Sutton Road Markings. Sutton\u2019s company installed the crosswalk and another outside the Ladner Legion back in July in memory of his father, a navy veteran who raised his family in North Delta and served many years as the city\u2019s volunteer fire chief.<\/p>\n
Last weekend\u2019s ribbon cutting ceremony was attended by invited speakers MP Jill McKnight, minister of veterans affairs and associate minister of defense, Mayor George Harvie and Phil Sutton, with event emcee Olwen Demidoff, president of Branch 61, who spoke on behalf of the Legion and read a statement from Delta North MLA Ravi Kahlon.<\/p>\n
Also attending were all six Delta city councillors, Delta Fire Chief Dave Woods, Acting DPD Chief Ciaron Feenan, members of Branch 61\u2019s executive, Sutton\u2019s family, members of the North Delta Lions Club (who provided cake for the ceremony) and various community members.<\/p>\n
Invited guests were piped into the ceremony by Zhongxi \u201cJonesy\u201d Wu, a member of the Delta Police Pipe Band, alongside an honour guard formed by Delta police officers and firefighters.<\/p>\n
Eleven-year-old Isabella (Bella) Philips, a member of the Sutton family, sang the national anthem, and North Delta singer Susanne Nordin performed a pair of \u201cwartime\u201d songs following the days\u2019 speeches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Delta crosswalk celebrates 100 years of Royal Canadian Legion Published 3:00 pm Friday, September 4, 2026 Members…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":884045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-884044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}