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Posts Tagged ‘Battlefields of Europe’

Features, Memoirs & Pilgrimages

Along Quiet Roads – Part 2

This August the weather in France is perfect—blue skies for photographs and moody clouds for paintings. I came to Europe to paint. World-class museums are filled with landscapes of the Norman and Flemish fields. This land is valuable both for its artistic and agricultural production. But it is cherished for another reason. This is where the world came to fight, not once but twice. More than 111,650 Canadians died as a result of the First and Second World Wars. They are buried here. As an artist, the juxtaposition of war and peace interests me. I imagine European citizens picnicking with their families on the same shores Canada stormed—busy with modern lives on old battlefields. I want to see if remembrance exists in the off-season—when no one knows company is coming.

January 1, 2011, by Jennifer Morse

BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS
Reach sixteen Canadian Forces Base Newspapers. www.forcesadvertising.com
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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Legion Magazine is a Canadian English-language magazine with a French insert. It is published in a four-colour format, covering stories about Canadians, Canada’s institutions its military and its heritage. Legion Magazine is recommended by The Royal Canadian Legion, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to serving veterans and their families and the perpetuation of remembrance.