2003 January | Legion Magazine

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 War II navy, and each painting was one more opportunity to explore the moods of our lakes and oceans. Born in Toronto on May 28, 1891, Murphy studied at the Toronto Technical School, the Central Ontario School of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He taught at the Ontario College of Art from 1931 until he joined the war effort and was employed painting ship camouflage [...]