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. Wearing a hijab should always be a choice — July 30, 2026
  2. An old log cabin on the edge of a city- The lone remnant of a failed business venture — July 27, 2026
  3. Just say the line, Marit — July 27, 2026
  4. Forgotten Borscht – Where summer memories were once made are now littered with ruins — July 27, 2026
  5. Kleinburg Railway Station a remnant of a long-vanished railway — July 25, 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 22 2020

Prime Minister Narcissist goes out for doughnuts

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January 22, 2020

January 2020 OK, so our selfie-king prime minister decided to visit a Winnipeg-area doughnut shop, Oh Doughnuts, to pick up six boxes of $47 per dozen doughnuts for his colleagues attending the cabinet meetings in the city. Many are criticizing Prime Minister Sprinkles for not buying doughnuts at Tim Hortons, or for the fact that …

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Jan 16 2020

William L. Moore – A forgotten advocate for civil rights and mental health issues

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January 16, 2020

January 2020 On 23 April 2010, a memorial plaque was unveiled outside the Greater Binghamton Transportation Center bus terminal in Binghamton, New York, in honour of a mostly forgotten civil rights and mental health advocate who was murdered on that day 47 years prior. William Lewis Moore, born in Binghamton on 28 April 1927, was …

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Jan 13 2020

A small cluster of buildings once played a role in the treatment of war veterans

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January 13, 2020

January 2020 In the south-east corner of the Parkwood Institute Mental Health Care property in London, Ontario, sits a cluster of four buildings; three that are still in use and one boarded up and deteriorating, along with a small, dilapidated guard shack. This is the remains of the Western Counties Health and Occupational Centre. Formerly …

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Jan 12 2020

The Whistler’s Mother Statue – Coal mining town honours their mothers

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January 12, 2020

January 2020 In 1937, the Ashland Boys’ Association in the anthracite coal mining town of Ashland, Pennsylvania, came up with a unique way of honouring their mothers and mothers across America: an eight-foot bronze statue sitting on a hill overlooking the downtown area of Ashland. The statue is based on an oil painting by James …

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Jan 09 2020

RIP Zenith TV – 1989-2020

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January 9, 2020

January 2020 Today, I said goodbye to a friend I’ve had since my second year in university. My Zenith 19” TV. I have many fond memories of Zenith. I watched many great movies and television shows on this radiation box, including the very first episode of The Simpsons. Zenith moved with me from city to …

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Jan 08 2020

The National Holocaust Monument honours the six million Jews who perished

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January 8, 2020

January 2020 On 27 September 2017, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau officially dedicated the National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa, Ontario. The high, stark, white concrete walls of varying angles that make up the monument, sit on almost an acre of land on LeBreton Flats, across from the Canadian War Museum. The National Holocaust Monument, which …

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Dec 30 2019

The unique locks of the Trent-Severn Waterway

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December 30, 2019

December 2019 The Trent–Severn Waterway, a 386-kilometre-long canal in southern Ontario connecting Lake Ontario at Trenton to Georgian Bay at Port Severn. Originally surveyed as a military shipping route, the canal had its beginning in 1832 when construction began at Trenton. Unfortunately, access from Balsam Lake near Kirkfield, to Lake Simcoe was blocked until the …

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Dec 29 2019

Jumbo the Elephant – The “pride” of St. Thomas

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December 29, 2019

December 2019 Statues are a common way to commemorate notable people and animals throughout history, and many cities and towns feature an assortment of them. St. Thomas, Ontario, has a statue with an unfortunate significance for the southwestern Ontario town: Jumbo the Elephant. In a time before television or even motion pictures became avenues of …

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Dec 24 2019

Muddy the Mudcat – The pride of Dunnville

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December 24, 2019

December 2019 The southern Ontario town of Dunnville has a unique mascot: the Dunnville Mudcat, “Muddy.” At 50- foot long, and 27-foot high, the statue of “Muddy” is the world’s biggest Mudcat, designed by Mike Walker, a local artist and businessman. The Mudcat has long been associated with Dunnville, which can be caught by anglers …

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Dec 23 2019

Baby, you are missing the point of this song

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December 23, 2019

December 2019 With the release of another cover version of the classic song, “Baby, it’s cold outside” back in October, this time by John Legend and Kelly Clarkson, for Legend’s latest album, “A Legendary Christmas,” the debate about the song is back in the fore-front. Since 2009, this classic song, written in 1944 by Frank …

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