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. An old log cabin on the edge of a city- The lone remnant of a failed business venture — July 27, 2026
  2. Just say the line, Marit — July 27, 2026
  3. Forgotten Borscht – Where summer memories were once made are now littered with ruins — July 27, 2026
  4. Kleinburg Railway Station a remnant of a long-vanished railway — July 25, 2026
  5. The Story Garden – An interactive, educational playground for children — July 21, 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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Jun 04 2021

In-person graduation or virtual? Your choice

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June 4, 2021

June 2021 With Premier Doug Ford’s sudden announcement that he would like to see in-person graduation ceremonies for students at the end of June, just three short weeks away, the usual crowd are losing their collective minds over how this could possibly be done, safely, in such a short period.  I’d like to offer a …

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Jun 02 2021

Barrie Memorial grows for victims of Kamloops residential school

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June 2, 2021

June 2021 A memorial has sprung up at the iconic Spirit Catcher in Barrie, Ontario, one of many across Canada, meant to honour the 215 Indigenous children who were recently found buried in unmarked graves at the former Indian Residential School in Kamloops, British Columbia. Some of them were as young as three years old. …

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May 31 2021

Thunder Bay’s historic tourist pagoda welcomes visitors for over 100 years

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May 31, 2021

May 2021 The Tourist Pagoda near the waterfront in Thunder Bay, Ontario, is the oldest continuously operating tourist information building in Canada. Built in 1909, in what was then Port Arthur, it was strategically located near the waterfront and across the railway tracks from the grand Port Arthur Union Station, so as to attract visitors …

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May 29 2021

White River – The home of the real Winnie The Pooh

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May 29, 2021

May 2021 While Walt Disney may have made Winnie The Pooh a famous American icon, the soft-hearted bear with the insatiable need for honey actually has a Canadian connection. The real Winnie the Pooh, the one that inspired Christopher Robin Milne, son of English author A.A. Milne, to name his teddy bear Winnie the Pooh, …

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May 26 2021

Monument to Terry Fox symbolically carries on the run he was forced to abandon

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May 26, 2021

May 2021 A little east of Thunder Bay, Ontario, is a monument to Terry Fox, the 21-year-old Canadian amputee who mounted the Marathon of Hope, an attempt to run across Canada in 1980, to raise money for cancer research. Starting on 12 April 1980, in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Terry set out to run a marathon …

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May 26 2021

The Wawa Goose – A uniquely Canadian statue

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May 26, 2021

May 2021 At the top of a hill, looking down on the Trans-Canada Highway in the northern Ontario town of Wawa, is a uniquely Canadian statue: the Wawa Goose Monument. Originally unveiled in 1963, the 28 feet tall, 22 feet long statue of a Canada Goose, with a wingspan of 20 feet, has welcomed visitors …

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May 26 2021

An unfortunate reality of Urban Exploration – DO NOT go to the abandoned RCAF Station Sioux Lookout

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May 26, 2021

May 2021 Urban Explorers can forget about going to the former Royal Canadian Air Force Station Sioux Lookout. The owners live on the property and they are NOT friendly at all. For those who don’t know what urban exploration (UE) is, it’s basically exploring things like storm drains, subway tunnels, utility tunnels, abandoned ships or …

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May 17 2021

The Big Nickel – The largest coin in the world is in Sudbury

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May 17, 2021

May 2021 A trip to Sudbury, Ontario, is not complete without stopping at a very popular tourist attraction: the Big Nickel. Literally a big nickel, this 30-foot high, 2-foot wide, replica of a 1951 Canadian nickel, consisting of an inner steel core and a stainless-steel outer core (stainless steel contains nickel, which prevents rusting). It’s …

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May 15 2021

How did “flatten the curve” become “flatten the economy?”

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May 15, 2021

May 2021 When that great, noted philosopher, Justin Trudeau, made his infamous proclamation that we need to “…rethink concepts as basic as space and time,” in 2018, who knew how prophetic it would prove to be just three short years later. As we enter day 428 (as of 15 May) of the “two weeks to …

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May 15 2021

What if someone created a city, and no one came? – The failed Townsend Experiment

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May 15, 2021

May 2021 The community of Townsend is an oddity amongst the other municipalities in southern Ontario. It seems like an oddly placed collection of two residential surveys, with the grandly named Townsend Parkway and Nanticoke Parkway intersecting in the middle of the community, which is surrounded by the farm fields of Haldimand County. Townsend was …

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