Events that I have photographed.
Sunday afternoon saw Parliament Hill host the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain ceremony repleat with veterans, vintage aircraft, and fly-pasts. In attendance was the Governor-General, His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, the British High Commissioner to Canada and a host of other dignataries. Singing the Canadian national anthem was internationally renowned signer…
Sunday was a beautiful day for a run and so it was for Army Run 5 km and 1/2 marathon races to raise money for military charities. There were categories for male and female, injured and non-injured so lots of prizes to be handed out. All together about $400,000 was raised by 24,000 runners (14,000…
The 9th of August was the day chosen to honour the sacrifices of Peacekeepers because it was the day in which a United Nations Buffalo transport aircraft was shot down by a Syrian missile in 1974. With that act, Canada lost 9 Peacekeepers, the single greatest loss of Peacekeepers in Canadian history. The ceremony doesn’t…
Today was both a happy and sad day for the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) in that it lost its’ old Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) but got a new one at a ceremony held at the Shaw Centre in Ottawa. Today, Gen Tom Lawson relinquished the CDS chair to the new CDS Gen Jonathan Vance….
Today at the Canadian War Museum, the Canadian Armed Forces contingent was on parade for their departure to the Netherlands to participate in the annual Nijmegan March. This is the 99th year of the march and the 18th year the departure parade has been held at the War Museum. The Nijmegen Marches are 4 days…
On the 9th of July, the RCAF had its’ Change of Command parade where the outgoing Commander of the RCAF, LGen Yvan Blondin, turned over command to LGen Mike Hood, under the auspices of the Chief of the Defence Staff, Gen Tom Lawson. The setting was appropriate as the event was held at the Canada…
This date, 99 years ago, the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, as part of the 3rd wave to attack, went over the ramparts at 0915 hours into the murderous fire of the Germans. The Germans had not been badly affected by the preceeding bombardment and had devastated the two preceeding waves of allied troops. Of the 801…
CANSEC is the premiere military, police, and security industries tradeshow in Canada and was held this past week at the EY Center in Ottawa. Keynote speakers included the Vice-CDS LGen Guy Thibeault, Ministers of National Defence (Jason Kenney), Industry (James Moore), State – Western Developement (Michelle Rempel), Public Works and Government Services (Diane Finley). The…
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…