He has been stationed outside Great Canadian Superstore in Langford selling poppies daily for the past two weeks.
Holstein grew up in Regina in the 1930s during the Great Depression, and drought meant crops didn’t grow.
“I was lucky enough to find a job with the Canadian Pacific Railroad, but I didn’t drive trains, I drove spikes,” he said.
In Regina, he was active doing deliveries for a meals-on-wheels program and was on the board of directors of the Regina Lutheran Home for nine years.