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Newfoundland and Labrador: a Contribution Remembered (part 4)
From Gallipoli to Beaumont Hamel ^^^ Newfoundland Soldiers in St. John's Road Support Trench, July 1, 1916 This picture was taken before...
Samantha Cowan
May 23, 20213 min read
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Newfoundland and Labrador: a Contribution Remembered (part 3)
The Military of Newfoundland and Labrador - their lineage ^^^ Catholic Cadet Corps Drill on St. George's Field, St. John's, ca. 1910. A...
Samantha Cowan
May 16, 20213 min read
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This Mother's Day
^^^ The Mourning Mother sits opposite the Mourning Father at the Vimy Memorial in North West France Today is Mother's Day - a day to...
Samantha Cowan
May 9, 20212 min read
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Newfoundland and the Great War: a Contribution Remembered (part 2)
October 1914, the first contingent of the recently-raised Newfoundland Regiment left St John’s for England on SS Florizel From the...
Gerry Peddle
May 8, 20213 min read
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Liberation 75+1 Online this year
Hello dearest friends, Yes. Indeed. It has been another trip around the sun. Exactly a year from now, we aim to be making up for the 75th...
Samantha Cowan
May 2, 20213 min read
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Sam talks to Gerry Peddle, Chair of the Canadian National War Beechwood Cemetery, about Remembrance
For Remembrance Day this year, I wanted to get in touch with some of the remarkable people in the Battlefield Community that have...
Samantha Cowan
Apr 19, 20211 min read
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Legacy at Talbot House - Every Man's Club
Welcome to Talbot House - your home away from home In this special recording, Simon shares with Sam what his experiences have been like...
Samantha Cowan
Apr 19, 20212 min read
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The Royal Newfoundland Regiment
Did you know? When Britain declared war on August 14th, 1914, Newfoundland (Then a British Dominion, and 35 years away from Confederation...
Gerry Peddle
Apr 19, 20213 min read
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Air Canada gets government financing - officially offering refunds
Air Canada and the Government of Canada have reached a financial support agreement, providing our national airline with $5.9 billion in...
Samantha Cowan
Apr 18, 20213 min read
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When can we travel again? ...A saga
In a blog post over at Connection Tours, we are talking with travel agents about the huge demand we are seeing for 2022 and what it's...
Samantha Cowan
Mar 26, 20214 min read
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Syria's war is 10 years old. It's the only life its children know
Yesterday, today, and tomorrow - we recognize 10 years of war in Syria. Did you know that the War in Syria is the most documented war in...
Samantha Cowan
Mar 19, 20212 min read
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Holocaust Memorial Day, 76 Years of Remembrance
On Holocaust Memorial Day, remember the lessons we still need to learn from the Nazi persecution. . . . 76 years ago, in 1945, the...
Samantha Cowan
Jan 27, 20211 min read
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The Year Ahead Exercise
🎉 Happy New Year friends! 🎉 Regardless of what this year has in store for us, we are so excited to kick it off! This year, I'd like to...
Samantha Cowan
Jan 2, 20212 min read
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Let's Talk Christmas Shopping this year
Christmas is coming - and what you gift makes a DIFFERENCE!!!! While travel may still be on hold, we MUST support the local businesses...
Samantha Cowan
Dec 6, 20202 min read
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Our local favourite, The Lloyd Hotel in Amsterdam
A wonderful hello from our friends at The Lloyd Hotel in Amsterdam to share online goodies for those of us who can’t visit them just yet....
Samantha Cowan
Oct 15, 20204 min read
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A boost for Dutch museums and memory centers highlighting events between 1940-1945.
The Freedom Museum in Groesbeek has been hit hard by COVID-19 measures, like so many other museums around the world. But at the end of...
Samantha Cowan
Jul 3, 20203 min read
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The Sikhs and WW1
Who are the Sikhs? Sikhism was founded in the 15th Century in Punjab, now part of India and Pakistan. It has approximately 25 million...
Samantha Cowan
Apr 6, 20203 min read
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Canada's 1 Man Army : Léo Major
Did you want to go to our 75th Liberation of the Netherlands Anniversary Tour Page Click Here In 1940, at age 19 Léo Major would join the...
Samantha Cowan
Jan 29, 20204 min read
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Him or Me - The Parallels of a Canadian and German, Museum Exhibition
Did you want to go to our 75th Liberation of the Netherlands Anniversary Tour Page Click Here Did you want to learn more about the...
Samantha Cowan
Jan 24, 20203 min read
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Christmas During Wartime
Did you want to go to our 75th Liberation of the Netherlands Anniversary Tour Page Click Here A poster one could see back at home during...
Samantha Cowan
Dec 24, 20193 min read
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Canadians in the Netherlands: Arnhem Mayhem! Part 2 - The City of Ruin!
Did you want to go to our 75th Liberation of the Netherlands Anniversary Tour Page Click Here An Allied Sherman Tank supporting a Flail...
Samantha Cowan
Dec 23, 20195 min read
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Canadians in the Netherlands: Arnhem Mayhem! Part 1 - Panthers and Tigers and Shermans, Oh My!
Did you want to go to our 75th Liberation of the Netherlands Anniversary Tour Page Click Here After the events of Operation Market Garden...
Samantha Cowan
Dec 21, 20197 min read
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