A prospector unloads supplies from a bush plane at Taltheillie Narrows, N.W.T. In 1919, most of Canada’s 3,700,000 square miles were still uncharted wilderness. [...]
Archive for May, 2002
Memoirs & Pilgrimages
Reeled In
by Allan W. Waddy
As a sailor on board Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship St. Croix (2nd) during the mid-1960s, I had the honour to be a member of the Royal Canadian Navy in the exciting [...]
May 1, 2002
Memoirs & Pilgrimages
Normandy, A Soldier’s View
by Ken Huxtable
Soldiers take a few moments to relax with some music amid the destroyed and very dusty [...]
May 1, 2002
Canada Corner
Barging Down The Mackenzie
The river tug Vic Ingraham awaits its skipper at Fort Providence, N.W.T. Sir Alexander Mackenzie never had it this good. I’m in the middle of [...]
May 1, 2002, by Graham Chandler
War Art
Francis Forster
Stevedore. Travel and adventure have been a big part of war artist ’s life. Born in 1907 in Calcutta, India, he and his family immigrated to Canada and settled in Toronto in 1928. He studied art [...]
May 1, 2002, by Jennifer Morse
Defence Today
Heroism: On The North Atlantic
by Robert C. Fisher
German U-boat U-210 as seen from the deck of the Canadian destroyer Assiniboine during a deadly encounter on the North Atlantic [...]
May 1, 2002
Defence Today
For Better Or For Worse
by Ray Dick
Canadian and American soldiers are together again, this time united in the war against terrorism in Afghanistan. But is this a relationship that will last, or is it a marriage [...]
May 1, 2002
Canadian Military History in Perspective
The Battle For Kapelsche Veer: Army, Part 41
Personnel from the Lincoln and Welland Regiment’s canoe commando party train for the January 1945 assault on Kapelsche Veer. On Nov. 2, 2001 a large delegation of Canadians as well as many Dutch citizens gathered [...]
