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Somehow or other Dad got away with wearing his pre-unification ordnance corps mess kit, complete with pips and crowns, until he retired from the regular force in '87.

I seem to recall that the CA also used to get called out to deal with prison riots, at least at the Kingston Pen in '71. I can well imagine though that after a different event in Quebec in 1990 the CA would want to stay well away from LEO types of aid to the civil power activity. Just rife with...

Started my career in management at Canada Post in the late 80s. Left, came back in the late 90s as a consultant and then rejoined management for a few years before leaving again in 03. These changes are long overdue and, indeed, management has tried to implement them before on more than one...

Okay, so to be perfectly clear, I'm not advocating for conscription, certainly not in peacetime, although there are arguments to be made. As for wartime, notwithstanding the Ukraine experience, I'm inclined to think that if we get involved anywhere in LSCO they're unlikely to last long enough...

Civil War, First and Second World Wars, Korea. All conscript armies. Civil War conscription provoked riots by those who didn't want to fight. You might be able to rely on volunteers in the first instance but once you start sustaining casualties the supply of volunteers is unlikely to keep up...

I think it's more a case of Monday being the last day of summer and the intention having been to have decided by end of summer and the assumption being that there will be little if any change to the plan then normal government practice would be to announce the decision late in the day on the...

It seems there isn't always a direct correlation between name and function.

And of course both the Canadian Grenadier Guards and the Governor General's Foot Guards were at one time armoured regiments...

Well, the Strathcona's were once also designated the 2nd Armoured Regiment and 12 RBC was originally The Three Rivers Regiment. Then there is that other armoured regiment, The Halifax Rifles...

I think that's what I said... The vessel that came over on the Bonnie was the precursor to HMCS Bras d'Or and was never commissioned. She was later renamed Baddeck.

Made that trip too but don't remember it being in a hydrofoil.

Looks about right.

Only time I was ever on a hydrofoil was a ferry from St. Malo to Jersey in the summer of '74. Unfortunately we hit a channel storm. There was a severe shortage of vomit bags.

Was confused for a bit because I'd always understood that Bras d'Or was built in the UK and brought to Canada on Bonnie when she came. But I see from the Wiki that was a different ship a precursor to it's later namesake that was never commissioned as a warship. Apparently still held in storage...

It's a long time ago but I seem to recall my Dad being involved in Courts Martial involving dependent civilians in Lahr. Those wouldn't have involved the CSD but there must have been some delegation of civilian legal processes to the military justice system under those circumstances. FJAG would...

Although to be fair to the Surcouf itself, she seems to have managed 2 years of operations for the Free French, much of it based out of Halifax, before disappearing. Given her unique design I'm kind of surprised there doesn't seem to have been any real attempt to find her wreck, at least as far...

Room for 40 passengers, 10,000 nmi range, 2 eight inch guns, 4 AA guns, 2 motor boats and a hangar from which they even trialed an auto gyro. Kill two birds with one stone, CDC and CPS all rolled into one....,

So the French are back in the running with Surcouf...?

Wasn't there a quid pro quo? We'll buy your mothballed subs and you'll commit to staying at Suffield?

I suspect you would also need to factor in the farm lobby. The West Wing dedicated a whole episode to presidential candidates going to Iowa to take the ethanol pledge.