Archive for September, 2002

A worker drapes his head with netting to keep insects at bay.

I have no recollection of my first journey north over the […]

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 […]

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. […]

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, […]

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

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 […]

by Ray Dick

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

by Tom MacGregor

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

by David J. Bercuson

Canadian Forces members equipped with Coyote armoured vehicles […]

by Tim Cook

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