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Archive for May, 2002

Canada Corner

Wings In The Wilderness

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. [...]

May 1, 2002, by Steve Pitt

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 [...]

May 1, 2002, by Terry Copp

Classified Ads

BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS

“After the Last Veteran” – Includes reference to Canadian efforts for veteran’s welfare, including Caribbean veterans. St. Kitts–Nevis Legion.Lulu.com.

MILITARY MEMORABILIA

H.M.C.S. FRASER 1940: her motor cutter is for sale; a centenary project? graphoz@dccnet.com.

 

FIREARMS MILITARY AND COLLECTABLE WANTED
Licensed collector buying Luger Pistols 1900-45 and other military firearms. 514-457-5583, lugercollector@hotmail.com.

 

MISCELLANEOUS

ONTARIO RCL PIPES DRUMS AND COLOURS
Sunday April 25 from 10:30 a.m to 2:30 p.m., Royal Canadian Legion in Midland.  First 2010 General Meeting/afternoon Dress Parade with an act of remembrances for band members who have passed on. For more information go to lugercollector@hotmail.com.

 

The UK CONNEXION (non-profit Toronto social group) offers FREE MEMBERSHIP to singles - WHEREVER BORN. Brunches, dinners, dinner/dances, parties, theatre, jazz, golf, tours, pool, sing-alongs, hikes, and pub-nights. FREE newsletter. 416-201-0363. www.ukconnexion.net.

 

Wanted 35mm kodachrome aircraft slides pre-1975 and 16mm films. Tel: 604-707-0901, daletenby@shaw.ca.