Gloria Hooper to represent all mothers who lost a son or daughter serving in Canada’s Armed Forces as this year’s National Silver Cross Mother
Every year on Remembrance Day, Gloria Hooper lays a wreath in Portage la Prairie to honour all those who have given their lives for Canada. Every Bastille Day, she lays a wreath at the cenotaph in her hometown of St. Claude, Man. The name of her son Chris is engraved on the monument.Sapper Chris Holopina, a combat engineer in the Canadian Army, was killed on July 4, 1996, while on duty during Canada’s peacekeeping mission in Bosnia.
He experienced two tours of duty abroad as a reservist, first in Cyprus in 1992 and again in Croatia in 1993. While on leave he loved to travel, visiting Greece and France. As soon as he returned home he was eager to go back out on another tour, his family says.“We liked to play jokes on each other,” says Ashley Zuk, Sapper Holopina’s sister.Ms.
Ms. Hooper arranged to have a donation box at a local school and a store in town. She’d take the donations and ship them to him.After Sapper Holopina’s death, the Portage la Prairie Armoury renamed its lounge the “Holopina Lounge” and dedicated a wall to him. A lake in northern Manitoba was also named for him, an honour bestowed on the day of his funeral.
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