Wednesday, December 10th, 2025, 7:00 pm (Atlantic), in-person at the Lindsay Children’s Room on the 2nd floor at the Halifax Central Library, 5440 Spring Garden Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Click here for the Zoom link.
Major Ken Hynes, CD, MA, Royal Canadian Artillery (retired), served for 30 years in the Canadian Army, both across Canada, in the United States, and overseas. He is the former Chief Protocol Officer of the Royal NS International Tattoo and was Curator of The Army Museum Halifax Citadel from 2012 until retiring from the post in 2022, when he received the Certificate of Merit from the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia. In 2023, Major Hynes was invested with the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal for his services to heritage and culture.
Abstract:
Included as a chapter in my new book: “Service and Sacrifice – Extraordinary Nova Scotians in the Great War”, my talk will draw on the life and times of Lt Col Guy MacLean Matheson (Big Baddeck) and the mascot of the 25th Battalion (NS Rifles), Robert the Bruce (RTB). RTB was a small Belgian goat, acquired and chosen by the Battalion as their mascot during the unit’s service in Flanders and France, during the Great War, from 1915 to 1919. Both Guy and RTB came home with the Battalion in 1919 and their story is one of perseverance and comradeship – a strange and notable tale in the military history of Nova Scotia.
