History

On July 25, 1924 a meeting of World War I Veterans was held for the purpose of forming a local Returned Soldiers Association.  This Association held a Memorial Service at the cemetary every summer, and  a Remembrance Day Service every November 11, and looked after the general welfare of Veterans and their families until a local branch of the Canadian Legion of the British Empire Service League was formed.  It was called Oak Lake Branch No.79 and was part of the Manitoba and North West Ontario Command.  The first Legion Hall was a two-room building on Main Street (North Railway) which was lost to fire in 1968.  On September 1970 the first meeting was held at the present Legion Hall which had been purchased and moved into Oak Lake from Bellview.

Goals and Objectives
- To bring about unity of all who have served.
- To extend the spirit of comradeship and mutual help.
- To pass on to families and descendants the traditions for which the Legion stands.
- To perpetuate the memory and the noble deeds of those who have fallen while on military service to Canada and those who die in the future.
- To promote and care for memorials to the valour and sacrifice of the fallen; to provide suitable burial, if required, to keep an annual memorial day and to preserve appropriate records and memories in perpetuity.

Other Information
- General meetings held second Monday of the month at 8:00 p.m. each month except July and August.
- Monthly meat draws on last Saturday of the month from 4:00 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Oak Lake Legion.
- Annual fund raisers include Maple Syrup Supper in March and Roast Beef Supper in June.
- Annual Remembrance Day Service at Oak Lake Community Hall on November 11.
- Zone Decoration Day Service followed by unveiling of the new Veterans Monument on June 6th, 2004.

Royal Canadian Legion Committee Members
Chairperson: Clare Moir 855-2104
Treasurer: Morris Clarke 855-2682
Secretary: Murray Olive 855-2083
Members: Walter Murray 855-2113

Address:
Box 5
291 Assiniboine St. W.
Oak Lake, Manitoba
R0M 1P0