Archive for November, 2000
Canada Corner
A Bridge With Two Tragedies
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 [...]
November 1, 2000, by James M. Whalen
Memoirs & Pilgrimages
Beirut Days
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 [...]
November 1, 2000
Memoirs & Pilgrimages
The Case Of The Missing Canoe
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. [...]
November 1, 2000
Memoirs & Pilgrimages
The Stringer’s Story
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 [...]
November 1, 2000
Canada Corner
The Tidal Bore
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 [...]
November 1, 2000, by Alex Madsen
War Art
A.Y. Jackson
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 [...]
November 1, 2000, by Jennifer Morse
Canadian Military History in Perspective
The Liberation Of Belgium: Army, Part 33
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 [...]
