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Archive for September, 2002

Canada Corner

North To Alaska

A worker drapes his head with netting to keep insects at bay. I have no recollection of my first journey north over the [...]

September 1, 2002, by Les McLaughlin

Memoirs & Pilgrimages

Horror Beyond Dieppe

by Robert Waddy   On Sept. 1, 1939–at the age of 18–I went to a party at a pharmacist’s home in North Vancouver. The pharmacist was a good friend who had given me the opportunity [...]

September 1, 2002

Memoirs & Pilgrimages

The Airman From The Crash

by John Lewis   One of my favourite pastimes during World War II was riding my bicycle out to the Royal Air Force base situated a short distance from our house in Heston, England. [...]

September 1, 2002

Memoirs & Pilgrimages

In Her Majesty’s Service

by Rosalee van Stelten   It began in Winnipeg during the Great Flood of 1950. My schoolmates were stacking sandbags to keep back the swiftly rising waters of the Red River. Slight of build, [...]

September 1, 2002

Canada Corner

Apple Country

From top: Beautiful apples sparkle under the sun in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley; Apple grower G.T. Turnbull examines [...]

September 1, 2002, by Steve Pitt

War Art

Thurston Topham

An Ammunition Column. Thurston Topham was Canadian by choice, not birth. Born in England in 1888, he emigrated to Montreal when he was 23. His British education prepared him for architecture and interior decoration, but after his experiences in World War I he decided to pursue a career as an artist. In WW I, Topham joined the 1st Canadian Siege Battery, where he was put to work creating panoramic observation sketches as well as routine duties. He often worked on his personal paintings by moonlight during the Battle of the Somme. [...]

September 1, 2002, by Jennifer Morse

Defence Today

Frustrating Summer For Canada’s Military

by Ray Dick The Canadian Forces may have a new political chief at the helm, but the old problems of too few troops, [...]

September 1, 2002

Defence Today

Measures Taken To Protect Postwar Canadian Graves In Europe

by Tom MacGregor

Gus Turner (left), Fran MacBride and Web site designer Mike [...]

September 1, 2002

Defence Today

Eye On Defence: A Lighter And More Lethal Army

by David J. Bercuson Canadian Forces members equipped with Coyote armoured vehicles [...]

September 1, 2002

Defence Today

Rum In The Trenches

by Tim Cook   More than 230,000 Canadians were killed or wounded in the slaughter and inhuman living conditions of [...]

September 1, 2002

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