A Yukon-based Second World War veteran received a prestigious French honour on Wednesday.
Retired lance-corporal Joseph Novak, 98, who served with the Canadian Army Service Corps during the Second World War, was made a knight of the French National Order of the Legion of Honour Wednesday. The order was established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802 and is the highest decoration in France.
Nicolas Baudouin, consul general of France in Vancouver, and Gen. Benoît Puga, grand chancellor of the National Order of the Legion of Honour, presented the award on behalf of the president of France at the Whitehorse Legion on Wednesday. Puga flew from France
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