The Nile Voyageurs negotiate the river’s second cataract in November 1884. For nearly 400 Canadians it was a winter like no other. Instead [...]
Archive for January, 2004
Defence Today
Canada’s Military Ethos
by David J. Bercuson
However the concept “profession of arms” is described in modern terms, it is always defined as having an “unlimited liability” to the political masters who direct [...]
January 1, 2004
Defence Today
Canadian Soldiers Receive British Medal
Top: General Ray Hénault presents the British Operational Service Medal for Sierra Leone to Master Warrant Officer Ken [...]
January 1, 2004
Defence Today
New Armoured Vehicles Announced After Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan
by Ray Dick
A United States Army Stryker armoured vehicle moves out [...]
January 1, 2004
Memoirs & Pilgrimages
Pausing To Reflect
From top: Fisherman Barry Sullivan remembers while on his boat at Herring Cove, N.S.; businessmen pause for remembrance [...]
January 1, 2004
Memoirs & Pilgrimages
An Italian Remembrance
Illustrations and story by Jennifer Morse
Clockwise from top left: Student Celene Montgomery arrives at [...]
January 1, 2004, by Jennifer Morse
Canada Corner
Fortress Louisbourg
Sunlight washes over the historic King’s Bastion Barracks at Fortress Louisbourg. Inset: One of the fort’s restored [...]
January 1, 2004, by L.D. Cross
War Art
George Broomfield
George Broomfield’s paintings depict airmen and the advance through Northwest Europe. From top: Transport With Supplies For 2nd Army In Belgium; French Farm, Normandy; 143 Wing, Second Tactical Air Force Move Into Eindhoven, Holland; Troops From Front Passing Through Norrey-En-Bessin, Normandy. Few artists saw what George Broomfield recorded during World War II. His association with No. 143 Wing, Second Tactical Air Force, gave him the opportunity to paint the activities of a single formation from the time it was preparing to leave England to well after its arrival in southeastern Holland. Following the first few weeks of the D-Day [...]
January 1, 2004, by Jennifer Morse
Canada & the Victoria Cross
Canada And The Victoria Cross: Part 1 of 18
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred
Cannon to right of them
Cannon to left of them
Cannon in front of them
Volley’d and thunder’d
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Lieutenant Alexander Roberts Dunn, VC. ILLUSTRATION: Sharif Tarabay The Battle of Balaclava! An atrocious disregard [...]
January 1, 2004, by Arthur Bishop
Canadian Military History in Perspective
The Aries Flights Of 1945: Air Force, Part 1
After her modification for scientific research, Aries sits at a Canadian airport in 1945. Inset: Wing Commander Kenneth [...]
January 1, 2004, by Hugh A. Halliday
