Sep 19 2010
Published in the Barrie Advance, 16 September 2010 I disagree with the naming of the new GO station as the Barrie Waterfront GO station. As cities grow, parts of our heritage naturally tend to disappear, sometimes needlessly. Allandale was not simply a street corner, but an important railway hub north of Toronto. Naming the station the …
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May 28 2010
Published in the Barrie Advance 27 May 2010 A lot of people subscribe to the fanciful myth that Canada is a “peacekeeper nation” which is a load of bunk. Have you ever heard of Canada’s contributions to the South African War, WWI, WWII, Korea or the first Gulf War? Peacekeeping, like world peace, is an …
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May 25 2010
August 2009 For good or bad, right or wrong, Simcoe County council voted to put a one year moratorium of the construction of the Simcoe North Landfill, AKA, Site 41. Now Simcoe County Warden Tony Guergis is suggesting that Site 41 be abandoned as there will never be support for situating a landfill on the …
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May 25 2010
Published in Legion Magazine January/February 2010 On one foggy day in May 1989 when I was sailing aboard HMCS Porte St Loius, we were sailing in formation with the Porte St Jean about 500 yards behind us. I was on lifebuoy sentry duty and heard the following transmission come across my Personal Radio Communicator (PRC): …
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May 25 2010
Published in the Barrie Advance 9 December 2009 Since it now appears that the HST will pass into law, despite the wishes of sizable portion of Ontarians (given the number of letters to the editor and editorials I’ve seen stating that people don’t want this tax increase), I will now throw the matter over …
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Jul 09 2009
The following article was originally published in the January – February 1966 issue of Sentinel magazine. While I didn’t write this article, I wanted to include the story of this much-loved man in Royal Canadian Navy circles: *************************************************************************************************************** Old-time navy men lost a good friend and their favorite laundryman recently when Soue Kee, 80, died …
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Jul 09 2009
In August 1999, it was revealed that one of the Avro Arrow engines, Iriquois Engind #116, believed to be the only one left in existance, had been located lying in peices in a museum warehouse in Cardington, England. The Royal Air Force Museum apparenly knew of it's existance, but kept this infomation a secret for …
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