pferguson | April 30, 2023
The Commanders The Somme was where the British and French armies met occupying a 25-mile front mostly to the north of the River Somme. The battle of 1 July 1916, was the largest operation of the Great War and started with 500,000 men, mostly volunteers of the Pals battalions. The Pals did not have the […]
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pferguson | August 13, 2016
Days of Champions Amidst the clattering of today’s world events we have some respite as the Olympics fill the ranks and files of media. Not without their “discussion” too, the Olympics celebrate achievement and highlight angst. There are stories each day of overcoming adversity, of participation and winning, sometimes even without receiving awards. The games […]
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Tags: 16th Battalion CEF, 1912 Summer Olympics, 1915, Around the Bay Road Race, Boston Marathon, Burlington Canal Bridge, Canadian Scottish, Champion Runner of Scotland, Champions, Edouard Fabre, Gallipoli, Hamilton (Ontario), Ieper, James "Jimmy" Duffy, James Duffy, Leadership, Liberty, Marathon Runners, Olympics, Second Battle of Ypres, Stockholm (Sweden), Vlamertinghe, Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery, Ypres
pferguson | August 29, 2015
Finding Water – Finding Story When I was young, some forty years ago, I came to British Columbia and lived near a place that my maternal family had called home since the 1860s. Having lived in many places, across Canada and overseas, this new place of generational connection was foreign to me. Yet I wanted […]
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Tags: 16th Canadian Machine Gun Company, ANZACS, Collections, Exhibits, Family, Fear of God Films, Film, Film History, Gallipoli, Generations, Great War, Histories, Leadership, Magic, Passchendaele, Russell Crowe, Saving Private Ryan, Storytelling, The Light Horsemen, The Water Diviner
pferguson | January 15, 2015
Remember to Breathe What is leadership I ask myself? Where can I go to find it? Who has it? Do I have it? With some recent exploration into these very questions I find that leadership is truly in each one of us. It may be in that person whose vision allows everyone to make it their […]
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Tags: Breathe, Faith Hill, Great War, James Richardson, JIBC, Justice Institute of British Columbia, Leadership, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, Victoria Cross, Wellness