November 2, 2016
Pictou Advocate: Legion membership numbers “holding their own”
Many Royal Canadian Legions in the county were fighting hard to gain members and keep…
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November 2, 2016
Lighthouse Now: A stitch in time
Mildred Meisner remembers the parting words of her 17-year-old brother Bernard before he enlisted as…
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November 2, 2016
Lighthouse Now: The better face of Canada
When he arrived in Bosnia, it smelt of fire. Surrounded by levelled homes and missing…
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November 2, 2016
Lighthouse Now: Farmer bears witness to ‘War over Canaan’
While I have no evidence to suggest otherwise, I suspect an April 27, 1944 afternoon…
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November 1, 2016
Lighthouse Now: Home away from home
In October 1940, a spruce tree decorated with ribbon was hoisted to the rafters of…
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November 1, 2016
Halifax Magazine: A hero’s toll
Author Fred Doucette joined the Canadian Forces in 1968. Over the next 32 years, he…
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October 28, 2016
The Courier: Annual campaign starts Friday
The Royal Canadian Legion, St. Croix Branch # 9, and Milltown Branch #48, will begin…
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June 10, 2016
Halifax Magazine: Nova Scotia’s No. 2 Construction Battalion—trailblazing First World War heroes
As the First World War raged in April and July 1916, the Canadian army recruited…
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November 2, 2015
Pictou Advocate: Service leads to world travels
NEW GLASGOW – Ted Teiman can recall things about his military career as if he…
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November 2, 2015
Pictou Advocate: Pipes of War at deCoste
Editor's Note: Article written in 2015 PICTOU – The pipes, they are a calling. The…
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