pferguson | September 19, 2017
For a Thousand Years Each new day here on the Salient brings something new to my being. Though we have seen many of these places before with each new step there is a new experience to feel, a new plain to watch across. Today we have traded four wheels for two, from fossil fuel to foot […]
Category: Remember Them Well |
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Tags: 15th Battalion CEF, 16th Battalion CEF (Canadian Scottish), 1st Canadian Division, Churchbells, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Family, For a Thousand Years, Hill 60, Hooge Crater Cemetery, Lady Haig Poppy Cross, Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) Cemetery, Maple Copse Cemetery, Mont Sorrel, Remembrance, Wreaths, Ypres Salient, Zillebeke Churchyard Cemetery
pferguson | June 4, 2017
Chance – Observation – Imagery – Voice and even a little Research A recent opportunity allowed me to think a bit more about what I do to create content – to find relationships between like things, dissimilar things and to create or perhaps reconnect connections. I suggested to my audience there were five keys that […]
Category: Our Thoughts |
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Tags: Anne Murray, Connection, David Francey, Eddie and the Cruisers, Eddie and the Cruisers II Eddie Lives!, Family, Film History, Gatherings, Hank Williams, Hey Good Lookin', Imagery, John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band, Midway, New York City, Oak Bay, Observation Chance, Peter Bourne, Remembrance, Research, Soundtracks, Victoria, Voice, What About Me
pferguson | April 21, 2017
The Australian Coronation Contingent Eighty years ago an Australian contingent of 100 soldiers, 25 sailors and 25 airmen traveled to the United Kingdom for the Coronation of King George VI, 12 May 1937. One of the contingent’s tasks was to return the remains of British soldier, Arthur Evans VC who died in Sydney Australia 1 […]
Category: Snapshots of the Great War |
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Tags: 25 April 1937, ANZAC Day (25 April), Arthur Evans (AKA Walter Simpson), Arthur Percival Sullivan VC, Arthur Percival Sullivan VC Plaque, Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC), Australian Coronation Contingent, Canon P.E. James, Coronation, Distinguished Conduct Medal, General Sir Ian Hamilton, General Sir William Birdwood, King George VI, London (England), Remembrance, St. Paul's ANZAC Day Commemorative Service, St. Paul's Cathedral, The Cenotaph (Whitehall), Victoria Cross, Wellington Barracks
pferguson | April 10, 2017
They did not waiver. This was Canada at its best. The Canadians at Vimy embodied the true north, strong and free. Extract from Prince Charles’ speech, Vimy, April 9, 2017 Within these few lines some words from Canada’s national anthem, …the true north, strong and free. Words to ponder upon a ridge or to feel […]
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Tags: 12 November 1918, Canadian Army Service Corps, Canadian Forestry Corps, Canadian National Anthem, Disease, Douglas Weir, Influenza, Margaret "Gerite" Alexander Weir, Mourning Figures, Pneumonia, Remembrance, Robert Stanley Weir, The true north strong and free, They did not waver
pferguson | April 9, 2017
The Torch Be Yours to Hold it High Pilgrimages to the Western Front especially by family members in search of their fallen sons and daughters was discouraged during the Great War. However, with the end of the war in November 1918, many families, friends and fellow veterans returned to these places of conflict to seek […]
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Tags: 16th Battalion CEF (Canadian Scottish), 1936 Vimy Pilgrimage, 1936 Vimy Pilgrimage MEdal, Canadian Legion, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Imperial War Graves Commission, Pilgrimage, Pilgrims, Remembrance, The Epic of Vimy, Vimy Centenary 2017, Vimy Pilgrims, Vimy Restoration 2007, War Graves Registration Unit
