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Providing A Home For Injured Veterans
Two veterans’ housing organizations in Vancouver have collaborated to provide free accommodation to wounded veterans in need of temporary housing while receiving medical care or rehabilitation. Winch House, a renovated townhouse owned by the New Chelsea Society and run by the Honour House Society, opened in November.
“I call it the miracle on 52nd Street,” says Jim Stanton, a board member of Honour House Society. Although the house was renovated and is owned by the New Chelsea Society, one of the first affordable housing societies organized by The Royal Canadian Legion in the 1950s, it will be run by the Honour [...]






