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Archive for May, 2004

Canada Corner

A Forgotten Disaster

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 […]

May 1, 2004, by John Boileau

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, […]

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.

Canada’s participation in the Boer War or South […]

May 1, 2004, by Arthur Bishop

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