Bruce Forsyth

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Name: Bruce Forsyth
Date registered: April 23, 2014
URL: https://militarybruce.com

Biography

Bruce Forsyth served in the Royal Canadian Navy Reserve for 13 years (1987-2000). He served with units in Toronto, Hamilton & Windsor and worked or trained at CFB Esquimalt, CFB Halifax, CFB Petawawa, CFB Kingston, CFB Toronto, Camp Borden, The Burwash Training Area and LFCA Training Centre Meaford.

Latest posts

  1. Kutsher’s Hotel and Country Club – The Last Catskills Resort  — July 31, 2026
  2. Wearing a hijab should always be a choice — July 30, 2026
  3. An old log cabin on the edge of a city- The lone remnant of a failed business venture — July 27, 2026
  4. Just say the line, Marit — July 27, 2026
  5. Forgotten Borscht – Where summer memories were once made are now littered with ruins — July 27, 2026

Most commented posts

  1. Canadian Army Training Centres of WWII — 76 comments
  2. Canada should issue a Cold War Victory Medal to its military — 45 comments
  3. Watching the Skies – The RCAF Ground Observer Corps — 35 comments
  4. Camp Borden – The birthplace of the RCAF and the historic home of the Canadian Armoured Corps — 25 comments
  5. Lament for the PMQ? — 23 comments

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Feb 08 2017

Heroes of Vimy Ridge: WWI Métis sniper was twice awarded the Military Medal

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February 8, 2017

Published in the Wasaga Sun / Metroland Media, 9 April 2017 Aboriginal and Métis soldiers have a long history of honourable service to Canada and the British crown. Close to 4,000 members of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in World War I were of aboriginal descent, an astonishing number given the limited civil rights accorded Canada’s First …

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Feb 02 2017

It’s not hateful to demand Canadian values

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February 2, 2017

February 2017 I think it’s disgraceful how intolerant most progressives can be regarding anyone who doesn’t share their opinions.  MP and Conservative leadership candidate Kellie Leitch has been taking a lot of heat for stance on screening immigration and refugee applicants for what she referred to as “anti-Canadian values.” Now in the wake of the shooting at …

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Jan 25 2017

The “tolerant left” strikes again; literally

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January 25, 2017

January 2017 In the wake of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the “tolerant left” continues to show the kind of hateful intolerance to other political views that is their trademark. Back on January 21, a male NDP supporter (Jason Dion Bews) at the NDP sponsored Women’s March on Washington in Edmonton, Alberta, a rally organized to …

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Jan 13 2017

Abandoned amusement parks in Canada: Prudhomme’s Landing – Wet ‘N’ Wild

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January 13, 2017

January 2017 Prudhomme’s Landing was once one of the biggest recreation and entertainment venues in Ontario.  Founded by John and George Prudhomme, on the shore of Lake Ontario in Jordan, Ontario near St Catherines, In its heyday, Prudhomme’s Landing was a very popular and affordable spot for youth and families and once saw as many as 7, 000 …

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Jan 10 2017

Little recognition for short military service within Canadian borders

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January 10, 2017

This is an updating and compilation of three past articles covering basically the same topic. January 2017 There is debate among some former Canadian service members over the issue of an additional service medal to recognize service personnel who don’t serve long enough to earn the current Canadian Forces Decoration (CD), which is awarded after …

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Jan 08 2017

Journey to the pole: The doomed final expedition of Captain Robert Falcon Scott

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January 8, 2017

January 2017 The realm of exploration has always been fraught with excitement and danger.  When things go wrong, they can be disastrous. Royal Naval Captain Robert Falcon Scott is one such explorer who lived for thee adventure and paid a heavy price for it.  He led two expeditions to the Antarctic in an attempt to …

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Jan 05 2017

Make TTC Special Constables full police officers

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January 5, 2017

January 2017 Toronto Mayor John Tory recently asked Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne to grant officers with the Toronto Transit Commission Transit Enforcement Unit the power to direct traffic and tag and tow vehicles disrupting transit routes.  I support this idea, but that’s not the only discussion we should be having. Maybe it’s high time the …

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Dec 21 2016

Liberal and media elites still don’t get it

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December 21, 2016

Published in the Toronto Sun, Ottawa Sun, WatchingAmerica.com 17 January 2017 The shameless antics of Hillary Clinton  It’s really getting embarrassing the lengths Hillary Clinton and the other Democrats are going to to de-legitimize President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential election. Democrats are trying everything they can to explain Hillary’s loss: allegations of …

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Dec 14 2016

Tommy Prince: Canada’s most decorated aboriginal soldier of WWII

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December 14, 2016

December 2016 In Winnipeg’s Kildonan Park sits a monument to Sergeant Tommy Prince, MM, dedicated by the officers and men of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry.  Erected on 11 November 1989, it pays a long-overdue tribute to a man who many Canadian had mostly forgotten about, despite the fact that he is Canada’s most decorated aboriginal …

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Nov 21 2016

Gone but not forgotten: The memory of Nina de Villiers lives on at McMaster University

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November 21, 2016

November 2016 At Hamilton’s McMaster University, there is a memorial garden dedicated to the memory of McMaster student Nina de Villiers, who attended the university from 1990-1991. So just who is Nina de Villiers? Nina de Villiers was a nineteen-year-old McMaster University biology student and Burlington resident; the daughter of Priscilla and Dr. Rocco de Villiers.  …

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