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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Nov 22 2019

Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes

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November 22, 2019

November 2019 In a case of be careful of what you wish for, Quebec Premier Francois Legault is sounding the alarm that his province will run out of propane within 4 days due to the strike by 3200 Canadian National Railway conductors, train and yard workers. Quebec imports 85 percent of its propane reserves by …

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Nov 21 2019

The next time, it might be you

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November 21, 2019

November 2019 Let’s talk about the mental health crisis in policing Thirty-seven. That’s how many OPP officers have taken their own lives in the past 30 years; with 15 in just the past 7 years. This year alone, there have been three officers from the OPP alone; the most recent being Staff-Sergeant Jeff Harmer. There …

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Nov 12 2019

The rebirth of de Havilland’s Plant #1 – Historic aircraft production plant gets a fitting new lease on life

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November 12, 2019

November 2019 A historic aircraft production plant in the Downsview area of north Toronto got a new lease on life, one that is quite fitting, thanks to the efforts of designers MacLennan Jaunkalns Miller Architects and Stantec, Architects in Association, and Bondfield Construction.  Once housing the original production plant for the de Havilland Aircraft Company of …

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Nov 08 2019

Can their souls ever find peace? A cemetery with a tragic past

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November 8, 2019

November 2019 Beside the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Headquarters in Orillia, Ontario, there is a small cemetery with a particularly tragic past. While death is a sad thing, most cemeteries provide some comfort and solace to surviving family and friends of the deceased interred in the cemetery; a place to visit to remember and reflect …

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Nov 02 2019

Project Turnaround – Was this failed experiment in youth justice given a fair chance?

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November 2, 2019

November 2019 In Ontario in the mid-1990s, the Ontario government under Premier Mike Harris made an attempt to reform incarceration for youth offenders in the province and Project Turnaround was the result. In 1997, a small youth jail was opened in Hillsdale, Ontario, taking over the facilities of Camp Hillsdale, a former adult offender agricultural …

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Oct 29 2019

Battle of the Atlantic Memorial pays tribute to Canadian sailors lost in critical WWII campaign

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October 29, 2019

October 2019 Canada’s military has been involved in many battles and campaigns throughout the history of Canada, but none lasted as long or were arguably more important to the Allied victory in Europe than the Battle of the Atlantic, a campaign that lasted the entire duration of World War II. Along with British, Commonwealth and …

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Oct 24 2019

Canada’s “Fightingest Ship” – HMCS Haida now a floating museum

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October 24, 2019

October 2019 HMCS Haidia, the last surviving Royal Canadian Navy Tribal-class destroyer, has been called the “Fightingest Ship in the Royal Canadian Navy;” a ship that sank the most enemy surface tonnage of any other ship in the Royal Canadian Navy. Celebrated RCN Vice-Admiral Henry “Harry” DeWolf, CBE, DSO, DSC, CD, was the first commanding …

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Oct 23 2019

Blackface and moral corruption for everyone

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October 23, 2019

October 2019 Well, apparently, it’s OK to wear blackface and be morally corrupt. In a disappointing, but not surprising election result, Prime Minister Blackface gets to remain Canada’s head of government for at least another 2 years. By winning a minority government, it appears that progressives have decided to reward the first sitting prime minister …

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Oct 21 2019

The lost town of Alvira – The sad story behind the abandoned Bunkers of Alvira

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October 21, 2019

October 2019 About four miles north-west of the Borough of Allenwood, Pennsylvania, is the Town of Alvira. Now a ghost town, this once bustling community is now known as the home of the United States federal prison, Federal Correctional Complex, Allenwood. For urban explorers, there is a different reason to go to this deserted town: …

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Oct 21 2019

Centralia clean-up a popular annual event

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October 21, 2019

October 2019 For the 6th year in a row, volunteers descended upon Pennsylvania’s “Lost Town,” the Borough of Centralia, a mostly-vacant borough with an underground mine fire that has been burning beneath it for 57 years and counting. Organized by the non-profit organization EPCAMR (Eastern PA Coalition of Abandoned Mine Reclamation), since its inception in …

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