Archive for November, 2000

The twisted remains of the 1907 Quebec Bridge collapse.

Spanning the St. Lawrence River near Quebec City, the massive Quebec Bridge has a history of triumph and tragedy. Completed in 1917 at a cost of more than $22 million, it is the […]

by William M. Koch

The author poses for a photo during a 1984 visit
to the dividing line separating Christian East
Beirut and Muslim West Beirut.

In 1983, after 32 years of service in the Canadian navy, I asked my career manager for a posting that would involve […]

by Andrew F. Maksymchuk

In 1967, with just three years of police work behind me, I was given the unenviable task of being in charge of the most northerly detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police. […]

by Douglas How

One Saturday in 1941 I was on weekend duty with the Halifax bureau of The Canadian Press when an unusual teletype message arrived from CP’s Toronto headquarters. It stated that […]

The leading edge of the tidal bore arrives in
Moncton, N.B.

The first time I saw it I was standing on a promenade overlooking the river. Right next to me was a couple visiting from South Africa and both of them were very excited about the […]

A.Y. Jackson loved the wild beauty of Canada and he painted it as only a Canadian could. As one of the founding members of the Group of Seven, which was formed in April 1920, he became known as the grand old man of Canadian painting. His […]

Canadian Sergeant L.K. Woods (left) and Private M.S. Perkins visit children in Furnes, Belgium, 1944.

September 1944 is remembered as the month of Arnhem, the “bridge too far”, or by Canadians as the time of […]