Aug 12 2016
Note: this is an update of an article written in 2007. August 2016 Simcoe County is fortunate to have numerous museums, telling the story of the county’s military, railroading, frontier and aboriginal past. One small and little known museum that exists right in the heart of Barrie’s downtown is The Grey & Simcoe Foresters Regimental Museum. …
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Aug 10 2016
August 2016 In the run-up to the legalization of marijuana, there are issues that I hope will be covered in the legislation. Some SHOULD be obvious. How are police and the courts going to deal with the rise in cases of impaired by drug while operating a motor vehicle that we will surely see? Of …
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Aug 06 2016
August 2016 Canada has a proud history of leadership and innovation in industry and technology. Perhaps one of the greatest industrialists and business minds in Canadian history was Crawford Gordon, Jr. He was comptroller of finance at Canadian General Electric by the age of 21; he was “Minister of Everything” C.D. Howe’s “Boy wonder” at the …
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Aug 04 2016
August 2016 Canada has a proud military heritage and many notable Canadians have distinguished themselves in the service of their country. One such Canadian is WWI flying ace Captain A. Roy Brown, a pilot who twice earned the Distinguished Service Cross. Brown would achieve fame for being the pilot officially credited with shooting down the …
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Jul 25 2016
On 23 July 2016, Bala’s Museum held their annual “Everything About Anne Day,” where they re-create the day in 1922 when Anne of Green Gables author Lucy Maud Montgomery came to Bala, Ontario, for a 2 week vacation. Starting off with the arrival of “Lucy Maud Montgomery” (played by Donna Hillyard) herself by carriage, the …
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Jul 14 2016
July 2016 Toronto was once a beehive of aviation activity, with numerous small public and private airfields in the area, most of which have vanished from the landscape with little to remind people today of the property’s aviation past. Barker Field is one of those vanished airfields. Originally named Century Airport, the privately owned aerodrome …
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Jul 07 2016
July 2016 On 21 June 2016, National Aboriginal Day, a long-overdue honour was bestowed on Canada’s most highly decorated aboriginal soldier. A life-sized bronze monument statue of World War I hero Corporal Francis Pegahmagabow, MM and 2 Bars, was unveiled in Parry Sound, Ontario, almost 100 years after he earned his first medal for courage …
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Jun 19 2016
June 2016 As a part of the 100th anniversary of CFB Borden, the base unveiled the Borden Legacy Monument, built as a lasting monument to the sacrifices of Canadian soldiers who trained at Camp Borden and died in the European battlefields. The monument features two black granite walls, one that contains an urn filled with …
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May 27 2016
May 2016 On 22 May 2016, I visited Kent State University, the site of the Kent State shootings where, on 4 May 1970, members of the Ohio National Guard fired upon unarmed students protesting President Nixon and the bombing campaign of Cambodia. The campus has the May 4 Museum, a monument to the students who died …
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May 27 2016
May 2016 Re: Captain Canada (Toronto Sun, May 27): First it was former House of Commons page and “Stop Harper” protester Brigette DePape, then terrorist Michael Zehaf Bibeau and now the obnoxious jerk, Brian Murphy, who interrupted the 1916 Easter Uprising commemoration. The message to any miscreants out there is pretty simple: …
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