by lakecountry | May 8, 2015 | Bloggers, Thomson, Carol
70 Years since World War II Liberation Day “In the final months of the Second World War Canadian forces were given the important and deadly task of liberating the Netherlands from Nazi occupation. From September 1944 to April 1945, the First Canadian Army fought...
by lakecountry | Nov 7, 2014 | Bloggers, Jim Taylor
On November 3, 1917, a young man “somewhere in France,” serving in the Canadian Army as a battery commander’s assistant, sat down to write a letter to his wife back home in New Brunswick. She was due to give birth to their first child. “I have been gazing into the...
