A worker drapes his head with netting to keep insects at bay. I have no recollection of my first journey north over the [...]
Archive for September, 2002
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 [...]
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 [...]
