At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them. –For The Fallen by Robert Laurence Binyon September 2017 In the small Chelsea Pioneer Cemetery in Chelsea, Quebec, is the final resting place of a Canadian soldier and veteran of the South African War: Private Richard Rowland Thompson, who served with distinction …
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August 2017 On 9 August 1974, Canada suffered its greatest single-incident loss of life in peacekeeping operations when a Royal Canadian Air Force DHC-5 Buffalo aircraft, assigned to the second United Nations Emergency Force mission in Syria, was shot down by three missiles fired by the Syrian Army. All nine passengers and crew were killed. …
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July 2017 On 15 July 2017, a historical plaque was dedicated at the site of a near-forgotten aerodrome: Trethewey Field, the first aerodrome in Toronto. The plaque dedication was the end of years of effort to formally recognize this historic grassy airfield, where the first aeroplane flight in Toronto started and finished its journey; an …
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Teddy visits the abandoned railway town of Depot Harbour, Ontario Located on Parry Island, Ontario, Depot Harbour was founded in 1892 as a railway company town by John Rudolphus Booth, the owner of the Ottawa, Arnprior and Canadian Atlantic Railway. Depot Harbour, which served as the western terminus for the railway, featured many of the …
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June 2017 On 6 May 2017, a long-awaited documentary film had its premiere at the Majestic Theater in Pottsville, Pennsylvania: CENTRALIA, Pennsylvania’s Lost Town. Directed by Joe Sapienza II, the film documents the rise and fall of a once thriving mining town, a fall that many will argue didn’t have to happen. Deep in Pennsylvania’s anthracite coal region …
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May 2017 Canada is home to many of the music industy’s greatest artists and Montreal based band The Damn Truth, who played the Casbah Lounge in Hamilton, Ontario, on 11 May 2017, is destined to be among that crowd. Featuring Lee-la Baum (vocals & rhythm guitar), Tom Shemer (guitars), and Dave Traina (drums), the band …
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April 2017 The Dieppe Raid, also known by its final official code-name Operation Jubilee, was a Canadian-led raid on the German-occupied port of Dieppe, on the northern coast of France, on 19 August 1942. For decades afterwards, many viewed the Dieppe Raid as a colossal failure that didn’t achieve any of its objectives and had …
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April 2017 On 9 April 2017, officially dedicated as Vimy Ridge Day in 2003, Canadians across the country and in France attended services to mark the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, an infamous battle fought by the Canadian Corps from 9 to 12 April 1917, a part of the Battle of Arras in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais …
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March 2017 The Hamilton Parks Police Force was a special constable force that patrolled parks within the City of Hamilton, Ontario, from 1943 until 1963. In reaction to a rise of vandalism and other criminal offences in the early 1940s, Hamilton Parks superintendent Fred Marshal hired George James in 1943 to patrol Gage Park, making him …
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Published in the Wasaga Sun / Metroland Media, 9 April 2017 Aboriginal and Métis soldiers have a long history of honourable service to Canada and the British crown. Close to 4,000 members of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in World War I were of aboriginal descent, an astonishing number given the limited civil rights accorded Canada’s First …
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