Norman MacMillan

Born on a farm in Jacquet River, N.B. in 1924, Norm attended high school and had been working at Canada Car in Amherst, N.S, building Spitfires, before joining the Army in 1942.

Assigned to the Armour Corps, he received basic training in Brampton, became a tank driver at Camp Borden and shipped overseas to Thursley Commons in the UK in 1943.

Norm was reassigned to the Carleton & York Infantry Regiment as a reinforcement and joined his new battalion at Bagnacavallo in late December 1944, in time to participate in the push to the Senio River. January 1945 was spent patrolling, then the regiment sailed to Marseilles in mid-February destined for Holland. After a long trip by truck through France and Belgium, they joined in the final battles of the war North of Nijmegen and were in the vicinity of The Hague when the war ended.

Following NCO school, Norm was assigned to the Army of Occupation at Varel, Germany. He got his discharge in 1947.

Norm married and had five children when he moved to Toronto in 1963. He worked in the roofing business at “Heather & Little” until retirement in 1993. A past Legion member of Jacquet River, Dalhousie and Atholville, N.B., he has been with 258 for 17 years. Norm and his wife, Mary, enjoy their children who are all in the area and their 14 grandchildren.