by K-J | 13 Mar 2023 | Sports
Peter MallettStag Special A new Mental Health and Sport Resource Hub is ready to help Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) coaches and athletes contend with the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.The Coaching Association of Canada (CAC) launched the Hub as part of its National...
by K-J | 13 Mar 2023 | Community
CFB Shilo is home to more than soldiers honing their artillery and infantry skills. This prairie Army training Base is also home to an array of animals and birds, and skinks, too. Stag editor Jules Xavier always has his trusty Nikons at the ready when he’s...
by K-J | 13 Mar 2023 | History
Andrew Oakden Stag Special The RCA Museum has a striking collection of heritage photographs showing Capt Alfred A. Farley, a good-natured and ubiquitous soldier from B Bty and the Royal School of Gunnery in the 1880s. Capt Farley joined B Bty as a Non-Permanent Active...
by K-J | 13 Mar 2023 | History
Andrew Oakden Stag Special The second son of a Scots officer, Thomas Bland Strange was born in Meerut, India, on Sept. 15, 1832 and educated at Edinburgh Academy. Unable, for financial reasons, to follow his brother to Sandhurst, young Tom was accepted at the Royal...
by K-J | 12 Mar 2023 | Features
Jules Xavier Shilo Stag It felt a little like Christmas when RCA Museum director Andrew Oakden finally held the FedEx package containing Gen Thomas Strange’s two medals purchased during an auction held in spring 2019. He waited more than 48 hours before he...
