by K-J | 26 Feb 2023 | Features
Anne Brigham Stag Special My family heard the next posting would be to Shilo, Manitoba, Canada — sounded like a fun place to go. New was always good, because every military child understood how this was the routine every few years. We had just been living in Germany,...
by LG Admin | 26 Feb 2023 | Features
BComd Col Douglas Gunter sits with the Royal family during Queen Elizabeth II’s visit to CFB Shilo in July 1970. Photo courtesy Anne (nee Gunter) Brigham. Jules XavierShilo Stag Imagine being posted to first Camp Shilo, and later CFB Shilo, on three occasions 11...
by K-J | 23 Feb 2023 | Features
Jules Xavier Shilo Stag There might not be a Tim Hortons in this quaint community 45-plus minutes west of CFB Shilo, but if you need an enormous apple fritter or fresh glazed donuts for your morning coffee — look no further than Minary Homestyle Bakery located on...
by K-J | 21 Feb 2023 | Features
Maj Joachim NnannaStag Special When I worked with soldiers at 1RCHA, I often wondered how I found myself ministering to the men and women of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) in this setting.I was born and raised in Nigeria — on the continent of Africa — but now proudly...
by K-J | 20 Feb 2023 | Features
Stag editor Jules Xavier’s Nikons often tell stories, as he covers an event or exercise featuring CFB Shilo’s soldiers from a 360 degree persective. The photographs he captured in 2022 were used in the now defunct 75-year-old newspaper as complimenting...
by K-J | 14 Feb 2023 | Features
No. 2 Construction Battalion members in Nova Scotia pose before leaving for France in the spring of 1917. Ginger Lamoureux’s great-grandfather Cpl Damascus Virgil with son Owen. Photo supplied Lamoureux family archives Accommodation at the front for Black soldiers...
