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Archive for September, 2006

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Defence Today

Gordon O’Connor: Minister Of National Defence

Just off the courtyard in the inner sanctum of Parliament Hill’s East Block is the high-ceilinged office of retired brigadier-general Gordon O’Connor, Canada’s minister of national defence. It is a very nice office. In the big outer room there’s a flat-screen TV mounted on the wall in [...]

September 1, 2006, by Adam Day

War Art

Frederick Bourchier Taylor

Frederick Bourchier Taylor was born in Ottawa in 1906, into a family of prosperous bankers. He began his studies in Montreal at McGill University’s School of Architecture and was soon working in that field for a few years. By 1932, Taylor had [...]

September 1, 2006, by Jennifer Morse

Canada & the Victoria Cross

The Airmen of ’44: Part 17 of 18

All three Canadian airmen awarded the Victoria Cross in World War II were cited for their valour within two months of each other during the summer of 1944–all of them posthumously. They were Andrew Charles Mynarski, on the night of June 12-13, David [...]

September 1, 2006, by Arthur Bishop

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BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS
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MISCELLANEOUS
FEATHERS ON THE BRAIN– Brian Watkins, RCL representative to RCEL, “Feathers on the Brain,” a memoir of his life in Wales and as a British diplomat, available at Amazon.com or any good book shop, ISBN 978-0-9866421-5-9, $10.23. The author will be present at the Halifax Convention. Contribution from every book sold will be donated to The RCL’s Poppy Fund.

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