Events that I have photographed.
To see the pictures from the ceremony, CLICK HERE: D-Day. The 6th of June, 1944. The Day that was the start of the end of WWII. Eighty years ago this mass undertaking, the largest seaborne invasion in history, known as Operation Neptune (the entire Normandy Campaign was known as Operation Overlord), started in Northern France…
On Thursday, 29th February, 2024, the Embassy of Kuwait in Canada hosted a reception in room TwentyTwo at the top of the Westin Hotel to celebrated its 63rd year of independence and the 33rd year since the liberation of Kuwait from the occupation of Iraq. To see all the pictures, CLICK HERE: Kuwait gained its…
To see all the pictures, CLICK HERE: Many celebrations are now taking place since the long dry spell inflicted upon us by Covid has relaxed and unlimited group size gatherings are again permitted. This is the case with the RCAF Gala Ball which was held on June 3rd, 2023, at the Infinity Centre in Ottawa….
To see all the images from CANSEC 2023, CLICK HERE CANSEC 2023 took place at the EY Centre on 31st May and 1st June, 2023 and was another show of what the world has to offer for security and defence, mostly at the nation level, although there were various vendors who could easily supply equipment…
To see all the pictures from this event, CLICK HERE It gets confusing when you have two events celebrating what appears to be the same thing. This is how it was for me as International Peacekeepers’ Day was celebrated by a remembrance ceremony at the National War Memorial (NWM) on the 29th May, 2023, and…
So, the question is, who is Bertha Wilson and why is she getting a plaque? Although unknown to many of us, Bertha Wilson was a significant presence within the Canadian justice system, born and educated in Scotland but emigrating to Canada in 1949. She practiced law for many years in several capacities but her claim…
To see all the images from this ceremony, GO TO THE GALLERY An awards ceremony was held on the 4th October at the Canadian War Museum to present the Kuwait Liberation Medal to six Canadian Armed Forces veterans who served in that conflict 31 years ago. On hand to speak was the Ambassador of the…
On 21st April, 2022, the Korean Embassy and the Korean Veterans Association, Unit #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…
It is difficult today to believe that a person’s courage or ability in conflict can be affected by the colour of their skin, but that has not always been the case. Given North America’s history of slavery and subsequent emancipation, many have believed, and continue to believe, that those races so enslaved were lesser persons…
All too often during Remembrance periods we only think of those who died and we forget the multitudes who returned from war with physical and mental traumas. Not so for Elaine Goble, an artist from Orleans, Ontario, who has recently been given an exhibition of her artwork at the Canadian War Museum. Elaine has completed…