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 […]
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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 | October 10, 2016
IN MEMORY OF OFFICERS NCO’S MEN OF THE 16TH. CANADIAN SCOTTISH WHO FELL IN ACTION ON THE SOMME Mouquet Farm September 4-7, 1916 Kenora Trench September 25-27, 1916 Regina Trench October 8-9, 1916 One of two known preserved wood battlefield markers of the 16th Battalion C.E.F. (Canadian Scottish). The Somme marker is held in the […]
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Tags: 16th Battalion CEF (Canadian Scottish), 25-27 September 1916, 4-7 September 1916, 8-9 October 1916, Ancre Heights, Battle of the Somme Bagpipes (Tune), Bay Street Armouries, British Columbia, Canadian Scottish Regimental Museum, Canadian War Museum, Casualties, Kenora Trench, Mouquet Farm, Pioneer Square, Pozières, Regina Trench, Remembrance, Somme, Thiepval Ridge, Victoria
pferguson | September 5, 2016
The Angels Among Us Need No Introduction The great, tragic loss of life during the Great War was unprecedented, never had the world experienced such an unleashing of carnage that took with it a generation of endless possibilities. After the armistice finding ways to cope with these extraordinary losses took on many forms and symbols […]
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Tags: Ache, Angels, Angels Among Us, Angels Gather Here, Canadian Pacific Railway Memorial, Church, Coeur de Lion McCarthy, Colchester Town, Dark, Langemark, Langmark German Cemetery, Light, Light and the Dark, Margate, Margate War Memorial, Meaning, Memorials, Remembrance, Roman Symbol, Statue of Victory, Symbol, Vancouver, Victoria, Zillebeke, Zillebeke Churchyard Cemetery
pferguson | July 4, 2015
“Pioneer Square” the Regiment’s Place of Remembrance As I wander up to Victoria’s Christ Church Cathedral I first walk by Pioneer Square where I stop to take a picture of the Canadian Scottish Memorial. The memorial that stands here is a replacement as an original marker, from the Great War, stood here for many years […]
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Tags: 16th Battalion C.E.F., C.W. Peck VC DSO and Bar, Canadian Scottish, Christ Church Cathedral, DSO and Bar, H.M. Urquhart CVO, MC, Pioneer Square, Regimental Memorial, Victoria, Vimy Cross, W.H. Metcalf VC MM and Bar