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Archive for January, 2003

Canada Corner

Beware The Windigo

Ojibway artist Mary Ann Caibaiosai’s depiction of the Windigo. Stories of the beast were often used to keep children […]

January 1, 2003, by Steve Pitt

Memoirs & Pilgrimages

A Look Back

by Stan Scislowski

No civilian can expect to know the deep feelings that can well up in a war veteran when he visits the site of his greatest trial and efforts in the war. Those who […]

January 1, 2003

Memoirs & Pilgrimages

Nightly Messages in The Congo

by Dan Danyluk

It was April 1961. Two miles south of the airport, heading into Albertville in what was then known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. My driver pointed left, […]

January 1, 2003

Memoirs & Pilgrimages

Mission To Sierra Leone

by Major John Egan

The author pauses during a live-fire exercise near the Songo River in Sierra Leone in 2001.

The Hercules dove to within […]

January 1, 2003

Memoirs & Pilgrimages

The Pride Of Yarmouth

by Tom MacGregor

From left: Wreaths were placed at the town cenotaph immediately after the church service; Memorial Club member Courtney […]

January 1, 2003

Memoirs & Pilgrimages

A Heartfelt Remembrance

by Ray Dick

From top: Nepean, Ont., resident J. Roger MacPherson, who served during peacetime with the Black Watch (Royal […]

January 1, 2003

Canada Corner

Peace River Country

From top: Wheat grower Herman Trelle was “outstanding” in his field during the late ’20s; freshly cut timber is […]

January 1, 2003, by Les McLaughlin

War Art

Rowley Walter Murphy

Seamen on Jetty Being Instructed on Bends and Hitches.

Rowley Walter Murphy was a precise artist. Every painting was carefully rendered and demonstrated his love affair with ships and Canada’s World […]

January 1, 2003, by Jennifer Morse

Defence Today

Engineering An Anniversary On The Trans Canada Trail

by Tom MacGregor

Members of the 44th Field Engineer Squadron construct a 40-metre Bailey bridge at the Creston Valley Wildlife Management […]

January 1, 2003

Defence Today

Canadians Honoured For Afghanistan Service

Top: Marley Léger accepts the South-West Asia Service Medal awarded posthumously to her husband, Sergeant Marc Léger […]

January 1, 2003

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