Today was a busy day with 3 events of which the first was CANSEC, which I’ll post in a couple of days. However, today I got to shot royalty again as their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of the Kingdom of the Netherlands arrived in town and laid a wreath at the Tomb of…
On Sunday, the Royal Netherlands Air Force Orchestra was at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum putting on a concert in celebration of 70 years since the liberation of the Netherlands. The MC for the event was the Defence Attaché from the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, LCol. Christa Oppers-Beumer and also featured…
On Saturday evening, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum was all abuzz, but not with aircraft. Saturday evening the Richard Robinson Academy of Fashion Design was having a fashion show and using the Museum as the stage. The evening was sold out with approximately 600 people in attendance to see some of the past fashions…
On the 8th of May, veterans in Ottawa celebrated the 70th anniversary of the end of the War in Europe in 1945. The day started with a breakfast at Ottawa City Hall for the veterans and was attended by the Minister of Veterans Affairs, Erin O’Toole. After the breakfast, the veterans were driven from City…
On the 30th April, 2015, hundreds gathered to pay respects to 50 veterans of the Battle of the Atlantic in WW II. The event was hosted by the Canadian War Museum and sponsored by the Naval Association of Canada with BAE Systems one of the major sponsors. The evening was MC’d by CTV’s Tom Clark…
The day dawned cold at the National War Memorial on the morning of the 25th of April – it was -6 with the wind chill at 5:30 in the morning. It was the 100th Anniversary of Anzac Day, the day the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZACs) stormed the beach on the Gallipoli Peninsula…
Today the Korean Embassy and the Korean Veterans Association, Chapter #7, held a ceremony to remember the Battle of Kapyong in Korea on April 23-25, 1951. The battle was pivotal in that it allowed the retreating South Korean forces to orderly move through the Kapyong Valley and it stemmed the Chinese advance when an Australian…
Once again the Defence Attachés’ Hockey team, a.k.a. the Lameducks, girded their loins for battle with the DFL hockey team at the University of Ottawa Arena. Although the DFL team was vastly outnumbered, it was a closely contested match, the score being 4-4 at the end of regulation time. The match was decided in an…
Today opened to cold weather and cloudy skies with the threat of rain/snow. It was -6 degrees with the windchill and more reminiscent of Remembrance Day in November than early April (although Remembrance Day last year was lovely – +13 degrees). Notwithstanding, today was the 98th anniversary of the Canadian attack on Vimy Ridge in…
For those in the Smiths Falls area, and have Cogeco as a tv provider, the video that we produced for the Smiths Falls Flying Club entilted “The Russ Beach Airport Story” is being aired at the following times: 10 Feb – 08:00 pm 15 Feb – 10:30 pm 18 Feb – 09:00 pm If you…