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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Oct 23 2004
Published in the Barrie Advance 24 October 2004 Webster’s Dictionary defines a ghost town as, “a once flourishing town wholly or nearly deserted usually as a result of the exhaustion of some natural resource.” One such ghost town in Simcoe County is the former Village of Edenvale. Situated on Highway 26 in Springwater Township, …
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Oct 03 2004
Published in the Barrie Advance 18 October 2004 Canadian Forces Base Borden has been an important part of Simcoe County since opening in 1916. In its 88 years of existence, the base has seen hundreds of thousands of military personnel pass through its many training schools. In some cases, several generations of families …
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May 18 2004
Published in the Barrie Advance 19 May 2003 Longtime residents of the Stayner area will probably remember a time when the air buzzed with the sound of RCAF aircraft from a small airfield off Hwy 26 between Stayner and the tiny hamlet of Edenvale. Early in the Second World War, the Royal Canadian Air …
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Apr 12 2003
Published in the Barrie Advance 13 April 2003 Published in the Essa Times October 2007 Simcoe County has always had a proud military heritage. Canadian Forces Base Borden has been a fixture in the area since it opened as Camp Borden on July 11, 1916. Originally an infantry training centre for the Canadian Expeditionary Force …
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Jun 03 1989
Written by An Unknown Sailor The following poem was written by an unknown sailor on the Porte St Jean. If you are the writer, please e-mail me and I will give you proper credit. It was originally titled Ode to the Porte St Jean, but since I was serving aboard her sister ship HMCS Porte …
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