Spectators gather at the foot of Toronto’s Bay St. to view a variety of iceboats in 1907. “There were the iceboats, which were a very [...]
Archive for March, 2002
Memoirs & Pilgrimages
Joining Up
by Benjamin Errett
It wouldn’t exactly be true to say I joined The Royal Canadian Legion last October in a burst of post-Sept. 11th patriotic fervour. I had been [...]
March 1, 2002
Memoirs & Pilgrimages
A Search For Something Better
by Inspector Graham Muir
Vlade Maric and his family welcomed us into their home on a warm spring day in 1993. It was our first day in Croatia and [...]
March 1, 2002
Memoirs & Pilgrimages
Zero Hour
by John M. Robertson
It was April 1, but His Majesty’s Ship Indefatigable had been plowing a furrow back and forth across the Pacific [...]
March 1, 2002
Canada Corner
Festivals For Us Folks
Throat singers Melody Kuneluk and Evik Ayalik at Yellowknife’s Folks On the Rocks festival. Chances are good Richard Davis will [...]
March 1, 2002, by Marla Fletcher
War Art
Robert Hyndman
Wing Commander D.J. Williams. Robert Hyndman’s paintings depict the men and machines of the air force. Robert Hyndman has been a professional artist for more than 65 years. Born in Edmonton in 1915, he began his career after graduating from the Toronto Central Technical School where he studied under two men who went on to become official war artists in World War II: Charles Goldhammer and Carl Schaefer. Like so many of his peers, Hyndman graduated and headed to Europe where he worked as a freelance illustrator and continued his studies at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in [...]
March 1, 2002, by Jennifer Morse
Defence Today
Eye On Defence: Time To Ask The People
by David J. Bercuson
Defence Minister Art Eggleton In late February Defence Minister Art Eggleton told the annual gathering of the Conference of Defence Associations [...]
March 1, 2002
Defence Today
Conference Calls For Defence Policy Review
by Ray Dick
Legion Defence Committee members (from left) Lou Cuppens, Brad White and Buster Brown. The country’s top military, political and defence [...]
March 1, 2002
Defence Today
The Soldier’s Bible
In the March/April issue we excerpted Part 1 of The Canadian Soldier’s Handbook of General Information. Issued in 1943, the little red book was the Defence Department’s authoritative manual on a soldier’s rights and responsibilities in World War [...]
March 1, 2002
Canadian Military History in Perspective
Bomber Command Strategy: Army, Part 40
A church service is held in Normandy, France, in August 1944 for members of an RCAF Typhoon fighter-bomber wing. [...]
March 1, 2002, by Terry Copp
