pferguson | September 27, 2016
Ypres Day Three of Five A shorter ride today though at times it felt uphill and against the wind. Determined to push on, today’s objective was Passchendaele – one spot on the high ground that is the Western Front. We were most familiar with Canada’s role in this climb to the top where today the Canadian Memorial […]
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pferguson | September 25, 2016
Ypres Day One of Five The train arrives at Lille once again and I am most pleased to be back on this familiar expedition towards the Ypres Salient. As our driver takes us on our journey past drifting towns, villages and landmarks he is careful to avoid the many sail-less bicycles drifting to and fro on this […]
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Tags: Belgium, France, Great War, Ieper, In Flanders Fields Museum, It's The End of the World As We Know It, Lille, Passchendaele, Ploegsteert, Poperinge, St. Martin's Cathedral, Ypres, Ypres Reservoir Cemetery, Ypres Salient 2016
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 | 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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Tags: 100th Anniversaries, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, France and Flanders, Great War, H.G. Wells, In Flanders Fields Museum, MacLean's Magazine, Maple Copse, Passchendaele, Poppies, Richard Holmes, Vimy Ridge, Waterfields, Westwold, What Will Be Remembered