Clockwise from top: The Empress of Ireland plies the waters of the St. Lawrence in the early 1900s; the government steamer Lady Grey (foreground) sits in a dry dock [...]
Archive for May, 2004
Canadian Military History in Perspective
Turning To World War I: Army, Part 52
From top: Bell tents and men fill a field at Camp Valcartier, Que., in 1914; A march-past is organized at Camp Borden, Ont., in July 1916; (Inset) Sir Sam Hughes (right) visits Camp Valcartier [...]
May 1, 2004, by Terry Copp
Canadian Military History in Perspective
The Original Rainbow Warrior: Navy, Part 3
From top: (Inset) Commander Walter Hose on the deck of HMCS Rainbow; HMCS Rainbow set off in August 1914 to find German cruisers along the American west coast; Canada’s first submarines, [...]
May 1, 2004, by Marc Milner
Canadian Military History in Perspective
The Birth Of Missile Defence: Air Force, Part 3
From top: A Canadian soldier stands guard over debris from a V-2 rocket that fell near the docks in Antwerp, Belgium; [...]
May 1, 2004, by Hugh A. Halliday
Defence Today
Eye On Defence: Missile Defence And Canada
by David J. Bercuson
William Lyon Mackenzie King The argument as to whether or not Canada ought to participate in the United States Ballistic Missile Defense System may never [...]
May 1, 2004
Defence Today
Military Pins Hopes On Policy Review
by Ray Dick
Top: Retired lieutenant-general Romeo Dallaire chairs a panel discussion on multilateralism and the Canadian Forces with [...]
May 1, 2004
Memoirs & Pilgrimages
D-Day Memories
Clockwise from top: Canadian soldiers advance to consolidate a Normandy beachhead; a Canadian soldier prepares to land—with his bicycle—on [...]
May 1, 2004, by Norman Brown
Canada Corner
You Name It, We’ve Got It
Stare long enough at any map of Canada and strange things start to emerge. And I’m not talking about odd-shaped lakes or peninsulas. I’m referring to place names. For tucked among the dull and ordinary are hundreds of names for populated [...]
May 1, 2004, by Steve Pitt
War Art
Orville Fisher
Orville Fisher landed with the troops on D-Day, and his paintings record the historic assault and the chaos of battle. Clockwise from top: Engineers Clearing Roads Through Caen; Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders; Scheldt Crossing; Battle for Carpiquet Airfield. The will to survive must have been the overwhelming instinct for our soldiers as they fought through the waves and shelling to Juno Beach on June 6, 1944. Orville Fisher also thought about painting. He was the only Canadian war artist to land with the troops and he sketched every step of the way. Born in Vancouver on Nov. 24, [...]
May 1, 2004, by Jennifer Morse
Canada & the Victoria Cross
Saving The Guns In South Africa: Part 3 of 18
Clockwise from top left: Victoria Cross recipients William Nickerson, Arthur Richardson, Edward Holland, Hampden Cockburn and Richard Turner. ILLUSTRATIONS: Sharif Tarabay Canada’s participation in the Boer War or South [...]
May 1, 2004, by Arthur Bishop
