The Korean War was fought on the Korean Peninsula from 1950-1953 between North and South Korea and their allies (China and USSR for the North, and the USA and allies with the South). Along with the infantry, the RCN, and RCAF over 26,000 Canadians served in the war of which 516 lost their lives. The…
An airshow is an airshow with airplanes flying and usually one headline act to draw the folks in. Well, that wasn’t good enough for the Aero Gatineau-Ottawa 2024 organizers as they spent the last three years co-ordinating three air demonstration teams to meet and entertain aero aficionados this past weekend (6-8 September, 2024), at the…
Not everyone who experiences trauma comes through it unscathed. It’s no surprise that those that actually experience the trauma have both physical and mental battles that sometimes last their entire lives. It affects them but it also affects their families, some to the point of disintegration and suicide. To see all the pictures from the…
On November 12th, 1838, after the Upper Canada Rebellion, a Hunter Patriot para-military group decided that Upper Canada still wanted to overthrow its British oppressors so decided to make a beachhead by crossing from Ogdensburg, N.Y., to take Prescott. The plan was that once the beachhead was established, disaffected Upper Canadians would flock to the…
On a beautiful sunny day on August 10th, 2024, a small group gathered at the “C” Force Memorial Wall (a.k.a. The Defence of Hong Kong Memorial Wall) at King Edward Drive and Sussex Drive to commemorate the 79th anniversary of the end of fighting in the Far East during World War II and also to…
To see the pictures, CLICK HERE: The Flying Legends of Victory Tour made a stop at the Gatineau Executive Airport this weekend in conjunction with Vintage Wings of Canada. The tour is part of the Commemorative Air Force – Arizona Wing, based in Mesa, Arizona, which has a similar mission to Vintage Wings in that…
To see all the pictures from the ceremony, CLICK HERE: In the Lebreton Gallery of the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, amid the tanks and other implements of war, history was made with the appointment of General Jennie Carignan as the first woman Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) for Canada on July 18th, 2024. In…
If you were downtown Ottawa or around Petrie Island on Wednesday afternoon, you may have thought Ottawa was the target of an airborne invasion. Not true however. What was happening is that the RCAF was doing a practice run of the Canada Day Flypast on Parliament Hill. To see pictures of the take-offs and landings…
To see all the pictures from this event, CLICK HERE: For 35 years Korea had been a Japanese colony and had suffered at the hands of the Japanese all that time and especially during WWII. After WWII, a line was drawn at the 38th parallel making two occupation zones: the North controlled by Russia and…
On April 1st, 1924, the air elements of the Canadian military became the Royal Canadian Air Force reporting to the Chief of the General Staff, the head of the Canadian Militia (Army) at the time. It wouldn’t be until 1930 that the RCAF would become a fully independent element and report directly to the Minister…