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. Tiger Dunlop’s Tomb and the Town That Never Was — October 8, 2026
  2. Abandoned railway station in Port Ben a lonely remnant of a long-vanished railway — October 8, 2026
  3. “Hate has no home here.” I say that’s bullshit. — October 8, 2026
  4. There shouldn’t have been ONE, but is there even ONE? – Canada Truth and Reconciliation Day remains contentious — October 4, 2026
  5. Is now the time to cut up the government credit card? — September 29, 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. Lament for the PMQ? — 25 comments
  5. Camp Borden – The birthplace of the RCAF and the historic home of the Canadian Armoured Corps — 25 comments

Author's posts listings

Sep 15 2026

Was the “discovery” of murdered children at Kamloops a lie?

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September 15, 2026

September 2026 Re: “Some puzzling, but popular beliefs,” (Drew Hayden Taylor, The Hamilton Spectator, 12 September): Let’s get one thing straight first off: I’m not a residential school denier. I want the truth, no matter how good or bad. Mr. Taylor presents an argument that pretty much that dismisses the idea that the anomalies found …

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Sep 14 2026

Troubadour Festival closes out a successful second season

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September 14, 2026

Published in Barrie Today, 15 September 2026 Congratulations to the organizers of the Troubadour Festival in Barrie, Ontario, for a very successful year in 2026. Judging by the size of the crowds that attended the concerts, the festival is proving to be a very popular summer event. However, also judging by the size of the …

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Sep 13 2026

The Borscht Belt Historical Marker Project finishes out 2026 with more marker dedications

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September 13, 2026

September 2026 It has been another successful year for Marisa Scheinfeld, a Brooklyn, NY-born photographer and author who is heading up a project to honour and memorialize what was once known as America’s Jewish Vacationland, colloquially known as the Borscht Belt. As the driving force behind the Borscht Belt Historical Marker Project, she has seen …

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Sep 01 2026

Beautiful Joe Park – A park to honour our canine furry friends

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September 1, 2026

September 2026 Beautiful Joe Park is a unique park, found in Meaford, Ontario. While many parks are meant to be dog-friendly, with fenced in leash-free sections where dogs can run free, Beautiful Joe Park is a park dedicated to all the canine friends that make our lives better, from service animals to search and rescue …

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Aug 27 2026

The Memorial of Hope at the University of Windsor honours those murdered at L’École Polytechnique

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August 27, 2026

August 2026 The Memorial of Hope monument on the campus of the University of Windsor, in Windsor, Ontario, is a permanent memorial to the infamous mass murder of 14 women at École Polytechnique in Montreal in 1989. Known as the “Montreal massacre,”  it was the deadliest mass shooting in Canada until the Nova Scotia attacks …

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Aug 23 2026

Railroading under the water – The Detroit River Railway Tunnel

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August 23, 2026

August 2026 Every day, over $320 million worth of goods cross the Windsor-Detroit border crossing, approximately 25% of trade between Canada and America, primarily across the Ambassador Bridge and the newly-opened Gordie Howe International Bridge, which stand 152 feet above the Detroit River. A railway barge used to carry rail cars across the river, but …

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Aug 22 2026

Gordie Howe International Bridge officially opens amidst excitement and controversy

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August 22, 2026

August 2026 Those looking to cross over the Detroit River separating Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario, now have a third option. After a long wait, the Gordie Howe International Bridge officially opened to traffic on 27 July 2026. Named in honour of the late Canadian professional ice hockey player Gordie Howe, who played the bulk of …

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Aug 18 2026

It’s another TACO Tuesday, but don’t get too smug Canada

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August 18, 2026

August 2026 Well, that didn’t take long! No, I’m not talking about the plethora of Taco Tuesday posts regarding President Donald Trump declaring last minute that he will extend the tariff deadline for three days, until 22 August. I’m actually referring to the people who actually believe that when “Trump Always Chickens Out,” it’s a …

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Aug 18 2026

Memorial pays tribute to Toronto residents lost to AIDS

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August 18, 2026

August 2026 Found in Barbara Hall Park, the AIDS Memorial is a physical representation of the loss suffered over the decades by Toronto and the world. Situated in the heart of the Gay Village in Toronto, the largest group affected in Toronto in the 1980s, the memorial is the result of hard work by a …

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Aug 15 2026

Meaford pays tribute to Emergency Services Workers and their Canine partners who toiled and were lost at Ground Zero

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August 15, 2026

August 2026 It’s been 25-years since that horrible day. It was a sunny September morning in 2001 when a group of al-Qaeda operatives hijacked three passenger jets, crashing two of them into the World Trade Center Towers in New York City, with the third crashing into a field in Pennsylvania after the passengers apparently tried …

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