by K-J | 9 Apr 2023 | Features
Jules XavierShilo Stag Standing at ease nearby the historic Vimy monument, then 2PPCLI A Coy 2IC Capt Megan Couto thought of the soldiers going into battle on April 9, 1917.It was a chilly Easter Monday when the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in France did what...
by K-J | 5 Apr 2023 | History
Shilo Stag Did you know there is an actual Victoria Cross (VC) medal on display at the RCA Museum. It was on Jan. 31, 2009 when the museum unveiled a new display in the Manitoba Hall of Honour, which pays tribute to Manitobans who have won 13 of Canada’s 94...
by K-J | 21 Mar 2023 | History
Andrew OakdenJonathan FergusonStag Special They were three brothers in the First World War — they all died within one year of each other.Pte Hugh Ross died on June 6, 1916 in Belgium; Simon Ross died on Feb. 22, 1917 in Mesopotamia; while William Ross died on May 1,...
by K-J | 20 Mar 2023 | Features
“Youth is the first victim of war — and the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.” — Boudewijn I, King of Belgium (1934 – 1993) Jules Xavier Shilo Stag He might have...
by K-J | 9 Feb 2023 | Features
LCol Reg Sharpe received his great-grandfather’s Dead Man’s penny he received from a cousin from Ottawa, who had it in her possession for years after it left family in Newfoundland. He passed it on to his father, a retired artillery soldier who trained at...
