Archive for January, 2006
Canada Corner
Bernier Of The North
The Arctic Archipelago, explored at great cost by Britain, had been virtually presented as a gift to Canada in 1880. Some cabinet ministers would have preferred to decline the gift, but Sir Hector Langevin had argued [...]
January 1, 2006, by Hugh A. Halliday
Canadian Military History in Perspective
Walter Hose To The Rescue: Navy, Part 13
No naval officer was more integral to the early years of the Canadian navy than Walter Hose. From His Majesty’s Canadian Ship Rainbow searching for glory off California in 1914, to command [...]
January 1, 2006, by Marc Milner
Canadian Military History in Perspective
Taking The Rough Land Of Sicily: Army, Part 62
One of the original reasons for mounting Operation Husky, the July 1943 invasion of Sicily, was the hope that the conquest of Italian territory would hasten the fall of Mussolini’s government. On July 25, [...]
January 1, 2006, by Terry Copp
Canadian Military History in Perspective
Patrolling The Coasts: Air Force, Part 13
Much of the Royal Canadian Air Force’s military flying after World War I had little application to preparations for WW II. A previous article in this series demonstrated that “army co-operation” training [...]
January 1, 2006, by Hugh A. Halliday
Memoirs & Pilgrimages
Train of Heroes
In a time of conflict, turmoil and terrorism around the globe, the Year of the Veteran struck a chord with Canadians. It resounded across the land in 2005, evoking an appreciation of Canada’s [...]
January 1, 2006, by Mac Johnston
Memoirs & Pilgrimages
The Colour Of Remembrance
In my watercolour set, Payne’s grey is always the colour I run out of first. It is the perfect pigment for Legion blazers and overcast skies. And so when my plane slips through the [...]
January 1, 2006, by Jennifer Morse
Memoirs & Pilgrimages
A Year Of Remembering
For the Canadians who served in places like Ortona, Caen, Kap’yong, Nicosia, Bihac and Kandahar, the 2005 national Remembrance Day ceremony in Ottawa was a historical moment in an important year, the Year of the Veteran.It [...]
January 1, 2006, by Adam Day
Memoirs & Pilgrimages
A Spiritual Homecoming
Their wandering spirits have been called home at last. Their remains may still lie in European soil, but–after a special ceremony on the very soil where they fought–the spirits of hundreds of [...]
January 1, 2006, by Natalie Salat
Canada Corner
Archeology In The Oilsands
Heading up Highway 63 out of Fort McMurray, Alta., you are a witness to the frenzied action that is all about the oilsands. Semis, flatbeds, buses, pickup trucks and vans everywhere and gargantuan 400-tonne Caterpillar dump trucks moving with purpose [...]
January 1, 2006, by Graham Chandler
Defence Today
A Backward Step In Education
Quietly, and almost without notice, the great Canadian military experiment in officer education in 1997 is in danger.
Last fall, CANFORGEN (Canadian Forces General Order) 156/05, issued by the Department of National Defence’s Assistant Deputy Minister (Human Resources-Military), announced a new “continuing [...]
