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. It’s not hard to see why antisemitism is at all-time highs in Canada — June 12, 2026
  2. Ontario remembers police officers lost “Because Of The Line Of Duty” at the 3rd Annual Ontario Police Suicide Memorial ceremony — June 11, 2026
  3. The Road Hammers headline the June edition of Barrie’s Troubadour Festival — June 9, 2026
  4. Time to ramp up the pressure on President Donald Trump — June 8, 2026
  5. Ghost Towns of Ontario – Cooper’s Falls — June 4, 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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Jan 14 2021

Grimsby’s historic Grout Nelles house gets a new lease on life

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January 14, 2021

January 2021 In towns and cities across Canada, historic buildings are demolished all the time in the name of progress. Developers will pay big money for the land these buildings stand on, sometimes with little care for the significance of these buildings. In too many cases, the developers will allow the building to deteriorate to …

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Jan 14 2021

Barrie’s historic Lount Castle lives on as a luxury apartment building

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January 14, 2021

January 2021 The City of Barrie, 50 miles north of Toronto, has many historic buildings, but one of the more stunning is known as Lount’s Castle. Built in 1877 as a summer home for William Lount, Jr., a Toronto lawyer, judge and politician, and the son of United Empire Loyalist William Lount, Sr., who served …

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Jan 12 2021

Ontario held hostage

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January 12, 2021

January 2021 Now that Premier Doug Ford has declared a second provincial emergency lock-down, I thought everyone might like to know that according to the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control web site (https://www.cdc.gov.tw/en), as of 12 January, Taiwan has had 838 confirmed cases, and a grand total of SEVEN deaths, from the CCP Virus, out …

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Jan 10 2021

What’s that saying about those who live in glass houses?

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January 10, 2021

January 2021 The political establishment needs to take a good look in the mirror. As the experiment that was the Trump presidency comes to an end, the political establishment would be well-served if they subjected themselves to an honest assessment of why Trump was elected in the first place, why there is so much distrust …

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Jan 09 2021

Let’s stop pretending we’re all in this together

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January 9, 2021

January 2021 Despite the constant pleas from our elected officials and health unit leaders that we refrain from non-essential traveling, especially out of the country, and remain in our homes as much as possible, many prominent political and health officials have been outed as having ignored such recommendations. The latest to be outed is Halton …

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Jan 07 2021

A sad end for the historic Preston Springs Hotel

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January 7, 2021

January 2021 On the last day of 2020, demolition began on the historic Preston Springs Hotel, an iconic landmark, in Cambridge, Ontario. The abandoned hotel stood at the corner of Fountain Street and King Street, in what was formerly the Village of Preston, for 137 years. It’s now just a memory. Empty since 1990, when …

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Jan 07 2021

Chinese Communist Party Virus will cause many of us all re-evaluate our lives

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January 7, 2021

January 2021 The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Virus has definitely changed our world and will no doubt cause many of us to re-evaluate the way we live our lives. Most things will eventually go back to normal, but some may never. How many of us who weren’t already die-hard “cruisers” would want to go on …

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Jan 07 2021

There’s blame to go around as Washington burns

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January 7, 2021

January 2021 First, it was the Red Coats who burned Washington. Now two hundred years later, it’s the Red Hats. Firstly, I condemn the violence and anarchy that took place on Capital Hill on 6 January. That should not have happened! People have a right to express their displeasure with the results of the election, …

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Dec 31 2020

Many reminders of Washago’s railway history remain

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December 31, 2020

December 2020 The small, white clapboard Canadian National Railway station in Hamlet of Washago, Ontario, is just one of the remnants of the long-defunct Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR), a historic railway dating back to the end of the 19th Century. The station building was built in 1906, along Centennial Park Drive, but was moved from …

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Dec 30 2020

You have three seconds to determine if this is a real gun. Time’s up

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December 30, 2020

December 2020 Regarding the seven young Black men arrested at gunpoint by Ottawa Police while attempting to film a video, let’s point the blame where it belongs. Ottawa Police reportedly were responding to a “person with a gun” call. I personally don’t care that Chris Simba claims the guns were in the cars by the time police …

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