Executive Council
October 4, 2014
Media Advisory: Premier to Attend Ceremony in Honour of the March of the First Five Hundred
The Honourable Paul Davis, Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, will join the Honourable Frank F. Fagan, Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador, at a service at the Harbour Front in St. John’s tomorrow (Sunday, October 5) in honour of the March of the First Five Hundred.
The ceremony will be held at the Neal Building parking lot, 50 Harbour Drive, beginning at 2:00 p.m.
The event will honour the First Five Hundred members of the Newfoundland Regiment who boarded the passenger liner, the S.S. Florizel, to England to enter the First World War.
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Media contact:
Donna Ivey
709-729-3551
donnaivey@gov.nl.ca
2014 10 04 1:40 p.m.