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Archive for September, 2007

Canada Corner

The Sad Story Of Partridge Island

It’s considered one of the best-kept historical secrets in the country–Partridge Island, also known as Canada’s Emerald Isle. But unless you’ve got special permission from the Canadian Coast Guard, about the only way you’ll get a good look at this [...]

September 1, 2007, by Linda Hersey

Defence Today

Operation Medusa: The Battle For Panjwai

Part 1: The Charge of Charles Company. Within sight of the infamous white schoolhouse, epicentre of the insurgency in Kandahar province, the hastily assembled Canadian force entered the kill zone. An enemy signal flare shot up across Charles Company’s lead elements and there aren’t [...]

September 1, 2007, by Adam Day

Uncategorized

1917: The Other Battles

Ninety years ago, the young Dominion of Canada was in the midst of one of the most significant years in its history. It was the year in which the Canadian Corps surged up Vimy Ridge in April 1917, a fortress that the Germans had defended [...]

September 1, 2007, by Tim Cook

Canadian Military History in Perspective

Draining The Devil’s Brigade: Army, Part 72

Italy, Normandy’s ‘Long Right Flank’, was the theme of University of New Brunswick historian Lee Windsor’s keynote address to the 18th Annual Military History Conference at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ont. Dr. Windsor, a passionate and [...]

September 1, 2007, by Terry Copp

Canadian Military History in Perspective

Tales Of Flight: Air Force, Part 23

An article in the May/June issue described the adventures of aircrew who evaded capture after being shot down over enemy territory. In those situations, air force personnel often had an advantage over soldiers in that–having force-landed or bailed [...]

September 1, 2007, by Hugh A. Halliday

Canadian Military History in Perspective

Starting Wartime Expansion: Navy, Part 23

The fall of western Europe to the Nazis by the end of June 1940 changed the nature of the war profoundly. Britain now stood alone in Europe against not only Germany and Italy, but also Germany’s notional ally, the Soviet Union. It was a formidable array. Europe, from [...]

September 1, 2007, by Marc Milner

Canada Corner

Iceberg Wranglers

How do you get a menacing 200,000-ton iceberg out of the way? You lasso it. For captains of offshore anchor handling and supply vessels off Newfoundland’s east coast, it’s just part of the job. On our landing approach, banking low over St. John’s harbour [...]

September 1, 2007, by Graham Chandler

Defence Today

Looking At The Future Canadian Forces

As I mentioned in an earlier column, the Conservative government quashed the military’s draft of a new Canadian defence policy statement sometime in the late fall of 2006 or early winter of 2007. As of the end of June, no new policy statement [...]

September 1, 2007, by David J. Bercuson

Defence Today

Tattoo

The whistle blows and two waves of citizen soldiers advance towards a black horizon that could serve as a metaphor for death or for the colonial shadows from which a young country’s nationhood would emerge. Either way, this indoor depiction [...]

September 1, 2007, by Dan Black

War Art

Johnnene Maddison

Johnnene Maddison wanted to find a way to recognize the contribution of Canadian women on the home front during World War II, and what better way than in quilting, sewing and embroidery– stereotypically a woman’s craft. Her choice of medium lends both truth and [...]

September 1, 2007, by Jennifer Morse

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BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS

“After the Last Veteran” – Includes reference to Canadian efforts for veteran’s welfare, including Caribbean veterans. St. Kitts–Nevis Legion.Lulu.com.

MILITARY MEMORABILIA

H.M.C.S. FRASER 1940: her motor cutter is for sale; a centenary project? graphoz@dccnet.com.

 

FIREARMS MILITARY AND COLLECTABLE WANTED
Licensed collector buying Luger Pistols 1900-45 and other military firearms. 514-457-5583, lugercollector@hotmail.com.

 

MISCELLANEOUS

ONTARIO RCL PIPES DRUMS AND COLOURS
Sunday April 25 from 10:30 a.m to 2:30 p.m., Royal Canadian Legion in Midland.  First 2010 General Meeting/afternoon Dress Parade with an act of remembrances for band members who have passed on. For more information go to lugercollector@hotmail.com.

 

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Wanted 35mm kodachrome aircraft slides pre-1975 and 16mm films. Tel: 604-707-0901, daletenby@shaw.ca.