pferguson | August 29, 2017
The Military Service Act 1917 On this day, 100 years ago, Canada passed the Military Service Act mandating that all Canadian male citizens between the ages 0f 20 – 45 could be conscripted into military service. Canadian Prime Minister Robert Borden, a Conservative, having visited the Western Front during the spring of 1917 saw first […]
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pferguson | August 23, 2017
Across the stone’s face, the letters have faded from view. It is our second visit to Cumberland in recent times…but some 13 years ago I first walked this place to learn of those whose lives were coal. Walking, as I do, length upon length of upright and earth lain markers I read the few lines […]
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Tags: 17 August 1917, 25th Canadian Infantry Battalion, 8 February 1923, Battle of Hill 70, Coal, Coal Miner, Coal Mining Man, Comx #4 Mine, Cumberland (BC), Cumberland Cemetery, Dave Waugh, John Alexander Smith, Kahlil Gibran, Lens (France), Painter, Ricky Skaggs, Robert Smith, Smith Family
pferguson | August 17, 2017
For Freedom and Honour…For Valour There is a round bronze disc about 5″ across…Britannia with a lion, a son’s or daughter’s name, and the words “HE [or SHE] DIED FOR FREEDOM AND HONOUR. One Vancouver, B.C. family to receive a Great War Memorial Plaque was the family of Captain Cecil Mack Merritt, a former officer […]
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Tags: 16th Battalion CEF (Canadian Scottish), 19 August 1942, 23 April 1915, 72nd Regiment (Seaforth Highlanders of Canada), Cecil Mack Merritt, Charles Cecil Ingersoll Merritt, Dieppe Raid, Fathers, For Freedom and Honour, For Valour, George Randolph Pearkes, Memorial Cross, Memorial Plaque, Mentioned in Despatches, Pourville, Pourville (France), Saskatchewan Regiment, Sons, St. Julien (Belgium), Victoria Cross
pferguson | August 11, 2017
Captain Oswald Howey Lunham, “…for now and all time” The Highway takes us up the island to our turn to the left…..to a solitary church…..near to a railway bridge…..near to a river. Sitting at my desk some while back I wrote and re-wrote the words that have become this day’s Passchendaele. A battle whose centennial […]
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Tags: 10 November 1917, 13th Canadian Machine Gun Company, Canadian Hero Fund, Highway of Heroes, Myrtle Lunham, Oswald Howey Lunham, Passchendaele (Belgium), Shell Shock, Trews