pferguson | May 19, 2015
Always Time to Remember One cannot help but reflect on so many Great War anniversaries as each day passes some 100 years later. Today though I have had a think about a few posts that really must develop and though perhaps the “On This Day” approach has passed, there is always time to remember…always…time…to remember. […]
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pferguson | August 15, 2014
Military Tailor to All Canadian Regiments Etc., Etc. It was time (recently) to start drifting through the many pages of research I tracked down by wandering the stacks of the University of Victoria. It’s good to wander the library’s aisles, stopping to take a look at old volumes just to see what they might contain. […]
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pferguson | July 25, 2014
Searching for the Great War 100 Years Later “Some wars name themselves…This is the Great War. It names itself.” Maclean’s Magazine, October 1914, p. 53 “Every intelligent person in the world knew that disaster was impending and knew no way to avoid it.” H.G. Wells (Writer) “…an old world of swords, lances and bugles would […]
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pferguson | April 29, 2012
Fragments of Memory Like inverted stakes in the hearts of France and Flanders, the splintered trees from the fields of battle stand as rooted silhouettes. Their splinters litter the ground on which men once walked, crawled or ran; the belligerent skelfs, large and small, hurling about tearing and ripping the flesh, piercing the souls of […]
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pferguson | January 14, 2012
Frank McGee In 1967 the family Ferguson returned to Canada and for three years lived at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. There was much to learn and amongst the first rediscovered interests were hockey, the National Hockey League, radio broadcasting and Foster Hewitt, and black and white televised games. I recall tuning in the gentle tube radio […]
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Tags: 1916, 21st Battalion C.E.F., Charles McGee, Coghill, Courcelette, Currie, Frank McGee, McGee Family, McKenzie, National Hockey League, Ottawa Silver Seven, Pipe Bands, Somme, Stanley Cup, Sugar Factory, Sugar Refinery