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On This Date – November

1 NOVEMBER 1939 Daily coast-to-coast flights launched by Trans-Canada Air Lines. PHOTO: BJORN LARSSON Trans-Canada Air Lines brochure. 2 NOVEMBER 1971 Eight Canadian Forces crew members die when a Dakota aircraft crashes near Cape Perry, N.W.T. 3 NOVEMBER 1972 No. 444 Squadron is established at Lahr, West Germany. 4 NOVEMBER 1942 Germany’s Afrika Korps begins its retreat from El Alamein, North Africa. 5 NOVEMBER 1966 Canada’s first and only military hydrofoil, Bras d’Or (2nd), is damaged by fire while under construction in Quebec. PHOTO: LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA Salisbury Plain. 6 NOVEMBER 1914 1st Canadian Division settles into a routine training schedule on England’s Salisbury Plain. It will be a difficult winter for Canadian [...]

November 1, 2010

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.